Normandy '44 Quotes

“Montgomery intended to bludgeon his way through the German opposition. What he had learned in North Africa, in Sicily and in southern Italy was that the Germans always counter-attacked. It was almost Pavlovian.”
― James Holland, Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

“Nor did Hitler have geo-political understanding at all; he’d not travelled the world, he didn’t speak other languages, his education was limited and he viewed everything – others, his enemies, the world – through the narrow prism of his own myopic vision.”
― James Holland, Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

“Nor were they Tigers but Tiger IIs, or Königstiger, as they were better known – more than 70 tons of the heaviest and thirstiest combat tank in the world. It was an awesome, huge beast, earmarked for a battle that was already lost and where there was precious little fuel or the infrastructure needed to keep this monster in the fight. Really, at this stage of the campaign, it is hard to think of a more pointless weapon of war to send to Normandy; if anything mechanical went wrong with these tanks, they would be going absolutely nowhere. As it was, they had arrived at Mailly with a large amount of their equipment missing.”
― James Holland, Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France