The book by the famous military and naval historian Valery Klaving describes in detail the events of the Second World War that took place in the Western theaters of war: from the Polish campaign of the Wehrmacht in 1939 to the offensive in the Ardennes in 1944 and the subsequent collapse of the Western Front in Germany in 1945. The German offensive in the West in 1940, the Wehrmacht's capture of Norway and the Balkans, the campaigns in North Africa and Italy, and the Allied landings in Normandy are shown mainly from the German point of view, from inside the Wehrmacht. Claving proves that German soldiers honestly and courageously performed their duty, often performing heroic deeds, and the strategic decisions made by Hitler and his generals were not always stupid and idiotic - otherwise the Wehrmacht would not have captured almost all of Western Europe and half of the European part in battle THE USSR. The author sees the reasons for the defeat in the colossal inequality of forces between Germany and its opponents. The book provides data on the order of battle of the Wehrmacht in Western theaters during various periods of the war. The book is intended for everyone interested in the history of the Second World War.