REVIEW: Hitler’s Paratroopers in Normandy – The German II Parachute Corps in the battle for France 1944
The author, Gilberto Villahermosa, does a great job of detailing the II Corp’s intense and focused fighting in Normandy as the allies pushed them south and east. During this period of the war the II Parachute Corps did not have an effective replacement program, had no consistent air cover, and often did not have the …