Bibliography: Normandy 1944

[Richard Hargreaves]

This is not complete, but for anyone interested in the Normandy/French campaign of 1944, these are the sources I've used in compiling my book. Feel free to add any further suggestions.

Unpublished sources

Imperial War Museum, London
AL 510/1/2 Army Group B weekly reports
AL 528 Seventh Army Telephone Log, June 1944
AL 785/1-3 War Diary and appendices of OB West, July-September 1944
AL 930/4/2 Personal diary of Alfred Jodl
AL 973/2 Seventh Army Telephone Log, June 1944
AL 974/2 War Diary of Seventh Army, 6 June-16 August 1944
AL 1412 Appendices to the War Diary of Panzergruppe West
AL 1531/3 Daily Reports, Army Group B, June-August 1944
AL 1538/1 Appendices to the War Diary of LXXXI Corps, 2 August-21 October 1944
AL 1547/1-2 War Diary of the Quartermaster of Panzer Lehr Division, 30 December 1943-31 July 1944
AL 1697/3 Personal papers of Erwin Rommel, March-September 1944
AL 1901 War Diary of Panzergruppe West, June-September 1944

Zimmerman, Bodo (et al), OB West: A Study in Command

National Archives, Kew
CAB 106 Files prepared for the British Official Histories
CAB 146 Files prepared for the British Official Histories

Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth
Diaries of Marinegruppenkommando West and Befehlshaber der U-Boote

Published sources

Newspapers
Das Reich, 1944
Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin edition, 1944
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Berlin edition, 1944
Times, London, 1944

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