This second volume of recently discovered interviews with German soldiers who participated in the battle of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is as illuminating and fascinating as the first volume. It contains verbatim interviews with 8 German fighting men (one of them a Luftwaffe pilot) about their experiences on D-Day as the Allied forces invaded France. As with the first volume, some surprises are found. German propaganda had done a good job of inculcating in its Wehrmacht troops (though probably not in the Waffen SS) the fantasy that Germany was not the aggressor but the defender of France and a united Europe, and that the Allies, comprising American and British banking interests and Russian Bolsheviks, were in an aggressive war to overthrow the democracies of Europe. That so many soldiers on the German side seemed to believe this (during the war; most of the men interviewed revealed that they now understood the truth about their country's lies and atrocities) is remarkable. Also surprising are the reports from these soldiers that the French populace was primarily allied with the Germans in many ways, often (in the weeks following the invasion) spying on Allied positions and reporting back to German forces. Perhaps most surprising, though, are reports of a remarkable super-weapon known as Taifun 2 (Typhoon 2) which supposedly was capable of massive (though definitively less than atomic) destruction, and the fact that while German prisoners of war were shipped to England and the U.S. and treated well, Russian defectors who joined the German forces were, when captured, apparently turned over to the Russians for mass execution. Each man interviewed speaks straightforwardly about the terrors of combat, the shock at the overwhelming force and resources of the Allies, and each reveals an aspect of World War II history that has been known by comparatively few students of history in the Allied nations. This, like its predecessor, is a genuinely remarkable book. ( )

This book describes the experiences of a few members of the German armed forces on and after D-Day. There is a more varied selection of interviewees and experiences here than in Book 1.
I was very struck by the final tale, of an attempt to use a fuel-air weapon system against Cobra.