This is a small, neatly presented book reprinted from the 1962 original by the Association of The US Army. It was written by Jorg Staiger, one-time CO of II Bn, 26 Panzer Regiment and a veteran of the battle, as part of the 'Die Wehrmacht im Kampf' series that was written in the 50s and 60s by German commanders as NATO and the West tried to take the best defensive lessons from their WW2 foes. This is the first English translation and while it reads well, it still suffers from the slightly stilted feeling that results from converting German into English.

As hinted at earlier, the book reads a little like an after-action report from the German perspective (and a rather self-justifying one at that), slightly anodyne with no hint of the personal, no specific combat examples etc that would have done much to bring things to life. To be fair, I guess that wasn't the 1962 brief. There are no photographs for the same reason, but there are well drawn (German) maps, although they would have been better in an A4 book format than A5. The index is also rather thin.

It's a difficult book to classify and doesn't read like a more popular history in say, the way a Holland or a Hastings would today. That said, it deserves a place in the canon.
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