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Originally Posted by MercFan
Why all this fascination with generals from the 'other side', guys?!
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Because our side is already well studied and known.
US history of WW2 revolved around D day forward with little mention of everything else that happened before. Remember by the time we got into the war in 1941 almost 42 for all intensive purposes the war was over 2 years old already.
In Japan's case it was about 10 years by that point.
Also the majority of the fighting in Europe, after 1941 took place on the Eastern front. We never fought more than 20% at most of Germany's armed forces up until 1945. 80% and the majority of the best divisions were on the Eastern front. Italy and the Western front were made up largely of understrength, green, old, or tired divisions. This is the only reason our incursion into Europe succeeded, if the Germans were not fighting the Russians invasion would not have been possible.
So anyone serious about studying WW2 in Europe is forced to study the Germans and Russians since they did most of the fighting.