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Blood and steel. the Wehrmacht Archive : retreat to the Reich, September to December 1944 / Donald E. Graves.
- Title
- Blood and steel. 2 : the Wehrmacht Archive : retreat to the Reich, September to December 1944 / Donald E. Graves.
- Author
- Graves, Donald E.
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xxi, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Overwhelmed by the strength of the Allied air and ground forces, following the D-Day landings and subsequent bitter fighting in Normandy, the Germans were compelled to abandon their efforts to hold France and much of the Low Countries and retreat to the Rhine. The Wehrmacht Archive helps reveal the experience of German soldiers and armed forces personnel as they withdrew through a remarkable collection of translated original orders, diaries, letters, after-action reports and other documentation. The book also draws upon Allied technical evaluations of weapons, vehicles and equipment, as well as transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations. The reader will learn from official documents about the Germans' efforts to cope with Allied air and artillery superiority, create new tactical methods for all arms and maintain discipline in the face of superior numbers."--Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- German ranks and their equivalents -- Stemming the flood: preparing to defend the Reich, August to November 1944 -- Practical and impractical measures for improving morale on the Western Front -- Individual soldier's experience: diaries, letters, reports and memoirs -- Home front -- Formation and unit organization and history -- Tank and anti-tank weaponry and tactics -- Infantry tactics and weapons -- Recruiting, replacements and training -- Problems: desertion, discipline, transport and food -- Propaganda -- German assessments of Allied troops -- In enemy hands: the experiences of Allied and German prisoners of war -- Humour (such as it was).
- ISBN
- 9781848328518
- 1848328516
- LCCN
- 60002020571
- OCLC
- 918972483
- SCSB-11249648
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library