Author Holger Eckhertz's "D Day Through German Eyes," with stories from the German troops' perspective during the allied storming of Normandy, might be a fraud, experts told U.K.'s The Sunday Times.
The book ranks No. 4 as an Amazon bestseller among its World World II top 10, but historians are looking into the book's accounts from the 1950s, credited to the author's German grandfather who wrote Nazi propaganda.
"There's no record of any of the soldiers in any other publication," according to Giles Milton, who also authored a D Day book of his own, the Times reported.
"If you put in any other soldier [into a search engine] you will find a trace of them somewhere, even in the Bundesarchiv [the national archives of Germany]."
The Times failed to locate the author, who was not listed in German or Britain phone records. Also, the Times could not locate the publisher or translation service.
Another D Day book author, Robert Kershaw, is skeptical of the skeptics, though, according to the report.
"It would have taken a lot of effort to make it up because there is sufficient accuracy in the small parts I looked at to warrant inclusion," Kershaw told the Times.
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