Overview -
• Published in German in 1954, ten years after D-Day, this is the first full English translation
• Offers 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
This book offers a 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 also offers illuminating insights to the conditions in the American landing section and explains how the German troops based there came to be defeated.
Normandy: From Cotentin to Falaise, June-July 1944 is the first full length English translation of the original edition published in German in 1954, ten years after D-Day.
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