Army of the West

Author: James A. Wood
Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall
Stackpole Books
2007
ISBN: 0811734048
Format: Epub
Pages: 288
Size: 12 Mb
Language: English

In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded successively by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and Walter Model, Army Group B bore the brunt of the Allied assault--D-Day, the Normandy campaign, and Operation Market-Garden--and these reports reveal what the German Army was thinking as it confronted the invasion.