New Book for Christmas

[Gibbs505]

Just finished this book. I highly recommend it!

There is much in this book that is new for me. The view point of the regular soldier is extremly intresting. A number of soldier and officers complained about many things but a common complaint was about, to them, pointless marching and counter-marching. It was truley a 'snails-view' war for many of the SS and Wehrmacht line soldier's. Most of whom had no idea about the fighting at the Arnhem Bridge when they were fighting the rest of the Para Brigade, and vica-versa! Generally, all they knew about was the fighting directly in front of them. And that was meriless enough.

There are many photo's in the book that I have never seen before, again because of the German view point of the book.

One other thing that intriged me was the lack of personal animosity between the british and the german soldier, inculding the SS! No matter how hard or ruthless was the fighting with the paratroops, they seemed to deal with the fighting as between professionals. This did not extend to the germans v/s the poles, americians or french however! The locals who took up arms with the soldiers also got short shift as well!