Normandy: From Cotentin to Falaise, JuneJuly 1944 [Paperback]

...should be read by scholars working on the fighting between the Americans and Germans on the western side of the Normandy front.  Journal of Military HistoryA unique perspective on the decisive early weeks of the invasion in 1944, written by a German Army Corps Intelligence officer stationed in Normandy at the time of the Allied invasion, who during the invasion was the department head for enemy messages processing (Ic) in the staff of the LXXXIV AK. It discusses in detail the events leading up to the creation of Falaise Pocket, described by the author as tragic turning point of an entire front. It discusses in detail the conditions in the American landing section and explains how the German troops based there came to be defeated.A German view of D-Day, published in full in English for the first time.Die Wehrmacht im Kampf Battles and Problems of the Second World War is a series originally edited by Hermann Teske and published in German in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by former members of the German Army in World War II, it provides valuable and historically significant information on the perspective of the German Army of many crucial campaigns and battles. Now being published in English for the first time, each volume has a modern introduction by Matthias Strohn, a lecturer at Sandhurst and the University of Buckingham and an expert on the German Army.Published in German in 1954, ten years after D-Day, this is the first full English translation.The German view of D-Day, written by an Army Corps intelligence officer in Normandy at the time of the Allied invasion.Includes an insight into the daily work of a German Intelligence Section during the latter part of World War II. ...should be read by scholars working on the fighting between the Americans and Germans on the western side of the Normandy front. The interaction among German command is interesting as it scrambles to patch lines. The book covers battles over D-Day beaches, US paratrooper drops, CherbourlÓ!