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Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ruhr Picket, Battle of the, Germany, 1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021845727
Author : Derek S. Zumbro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066808570
"Derek Zumbro chronicles this key military campaign from a unique and fresh perspective - that of the defeated German soldiers and civilians caught in the final maelstrom of the war's western front." "Zumbro chronicles the relentless assault on the Ruhr Pocket through German eyes, as the Allied juggernaut battered the region's cities, villages, and homes into submission. He tells of children pressed into service by a desperate Nazi regime - and of even more desperate parents trying to save their sons from sacrifice at the eleventh hour. He also tells of unspeakable conditions suffered by foreign laborers, POWs, and political opponents in the Ruhr Valley and of the mass graves that gave Allied soldiers a grisly new understanding of their enemy." "Zumbro also recounts the story of Field Marshal Walter Model's final hours. His eventual suicide effectively ended the existence of the Wehrmacht's once-formidable Army Group B after being pursued, methodically encircled, and finally destroyed by U.S. and British forces. Through interviews with surviving members of Model's former staff, Zumbro has uncovered the attitudes of beleaguered officers that official records could never convey." "Other interviews with former soldiers reveal the extent to which Allied bombing contributed to the rapid deterioration of German combat effectiveness and tell of civilians begging soldiers to abandon the war. Zumbro's research reveals the identities of specific characters discussed in previous works but never identified, describes the final hours of German officers executed for the loss of the bridge at Remagen, and offers new insight into Model's acquiescence to Hitler in military affairs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alan W. Cooper
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783379934
First published to acclaim in 1992, this book deals with the exploits of Bomber Command during their offensive against German Industry in the Ruhr during World War II. The author begins by describing the role of Bomber Command and goes on to define the Ruhr area and its great importance in terms of industrial output to the Germans. The author provides the statistics for bombers dispatched, the number, which actually got to the targets and those, which never made it for one reason or another. Air Battle of the Ruhr is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany a subject that has rarely been dealt with in such depth. This book fills in an important gap in the history of the Royal Air Force.
Author : Leo Kessler
Publisher : Chelsea, MI : Scarborough House/Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0812840054
Describes the battle that arose from Eisenhower's abandonment of the race for Berlin and the victory that was accomplished.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : s.l. : s.n.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015027341919
Author : Leo Kessler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ruhr Pocket, Battle of, 1945
ISBN : 0749304790
Author : Richard Worrall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472846549
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running. Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook its first concentrated bombing campaign, the Battle of the Ruhr, whose aim was nothing less than the complete destruction of the industry that powered the German war machine. Often overshadowed by the famous 'Dambusters' single-raid attack on the Ruhr dams, the Battle of the Ruhr proved much larger and much more complex. The mighty, industrial Ruhr region contained not only some of the most famous and important arms makers, such as the gunmakers Krupp of Essen, but also many other industries that the German war economy relied on, from steelmakers to synthetic oil plants. Being such a valuable target, the Ruhr was one of the most heavily defended regions in Europe. This book examines how the brutal Ruhr campaign was conceived and fought, and how Bomber Command's relentless pursuit of its objective drew it into raids on targets well beyond the Ruhr, from the nearby city of Cologne to the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. Drawing on a wide-range of primary and secondary sources, this is the story of the first titanic struggle in the skies over Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe.
Author : Alan W. Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 1840372133
A complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany. RAF Bomber Command's assault on German industry in the Ruhr began in March 1942, but their success increased the following year. This book describes in detail individual raids, their targets and the aircraft employed.
Author : Leo Kessler
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 081288549X
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 085052914X
March - April 1945. Victory for the Allies was only a matter of time. Two great armies were racing towards each other crushing German resistance in their path. Berlin was the prize, which the Soviets were in the event to seize. Instead Eisenhower, always more a political, rather than military, figure opted to destroy the German armies in and around the Ruhr. Churchill's warnings were ignored and Mongomery's plans overruled. What drove the decision-making at this vital time? Was it high level strategy or naked personal ambition? Charles Whiting sets out to examine the facts in his own distinctive style and reach a conclusion, no matter how unpalatable.
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0345214382
Author : Randall Hansen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307372383
National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Author : Alan W. Cooper,Wrens Park Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 0905778626
Author : John Searby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0948251247
Author : John Searby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Essen (Germany)
ISBN : 0902633503