Deckmaster's Reviews > It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

Quite the intriguing retelling of operation Market-Garden told from the point of view of the Germans, because as we all know history is written by the victor. It is really fascinating to see how the Germans managed to defeat the allies despite suffering the defeat in France literally just days before. It says a lot about the Germans conducting war at such a superior level. As the author points out it had a lot to do with improvisation but still a lot of skill was need to merge the disparate fighting forces in battle-worthy Kampfgruppen. As Oberführer Walter Harzer, acting commander of the 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen during the battle, points out that it was a victory of the common recruit of the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine or RAD who didn't even had basic infantry training. Yet they stopped an elite British paratrooper division.

The book also has a lot of personal stories of the soldiers that partook in the fighting. I found them to be quite interesting and worth reading.

The only thing that distracts from the reading are large amount of typos. Come on, the book was published in 1990 and my edition is from 2022 (with the StuH 42 on the cover). For 30 years nobody made an attempt to correct the various typos?

Still I give it 5 stars because Mr. Kershaw knows how to tell a tale. I'll be reading other books that he has published and I highly recommend this one to anybody interested in the German pov of the battle.