The book I read to research this post was D-Day Through German Eyes by Holger Eckhertz which is a very good book that I bought from kindle. This book is around 200 pages so is fairly long. I did quite enjoy reading it and do recommend it. This book is about the D-Day landings by the Allies from the German perspective and as experienced by their men. The germans called it the invasion of France and didn’t see it from the perspective they were liberating Europe under their occupation. I think D-Day from the German perspective was much worse than for the Allies because of the overwhelming onslaught by the Americans and their huge resources. Apparently Germans were astonished when after the Pearl Harbour bombings by the Japanese and Hitler declaring war a mere 48 hours later. The Germans were already pre-occupied with the war with Russia and an invasion by the Canadians and British alone would probably have been impossible. Many of the Germans became POW’s in the invasion and were classified in groups according to the codenames according to the beaches invaded like Omaha and had the various codenames. A lot of the reason the invasion went so well was the superior firepower of the Americans and the overwhelming numbers of sherman tanks that were far inferior to the better Tiger tanks of the Germans.
