This book covers the high command, the developments in unit
organisation, the campaigns and the uniforms and equipment of the German
Army in the last two years of the war in North-West Europe and Italy.
Despite the huge pressure of fighting on three fronts, ever-worsening
shortages of manpower and equipment, and Allied command of the skies,
Germany's decimated divisions fought on with impressive skill and
determination. This period of World War II (1939-1945) also saw a
fascinating mixture of obsolescent, newly designed, and field-made
combat clothing which gave the German soldier a radically different
appearance from his predecessor of just five years before.