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Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069363185
Author : Reginald W. Thompson
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1594161704
A critical study of the final British and American strategy against the German Army during World War II.
Author : Franklin M. Davis,Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0783557205
A pictorial account of the last days of the Allied campaign across Germany.
Author : Mark Stout, Harry Yeide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1616739657
This is the story of the Allied forces--the U.S. 6th Army Group and French 1st Army--that landed in southern France on August 15th, 1944. The book follows the action from the French beaches to the Vosges Mountains, where the first Allied penetration along the entire Western front reached the Rhine River. First to the Rhine covers the vicious fighting during the German Nordwind counteroffensive in January 1945 and the French-American offensive to clear the Colmar Pocket. It then pursues the forces of the Third Reich across the Rhine to their ultimate destruction. Unlike the forces landing in Normandy, these American divisions were hard-bitten veterans of the war in Italy, and, in the case of the 3d Infantry Division, North Africa. The French units included many veterans of the Italian campaign and comprised Frenchmen and Africans in almost equal numbers. As the campaign went on, the French ranks were swelled by tens of thousands of Free French Forces of the Interior, the famous maquis. The German forces arrayed against the Allies included the famed 11th Panzer Division, an Eastern front veteran known as the "Ghost Division," which would hit the Allied advance time and again only to slip away before it could be pinned and destroyed. This is the harrowing story First to the Rhine tells, from the strategic plane-down through the corps, division, and regimental levels to the personal experience of the men in combat, including the likes of Audie Murphy, Americas most decorated infantryman of the war. The book features little-known battles, including one at Montelimar, when an ad hoc American armored command and the 36th Infantry Division came within a hairs breadth and several days of hard fighting of cutting off the entire German 19th Army. This is the first popular work in English to explore the French role in the fighting and the relationship between the U.S. Army and the French forces fighting under American command.
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069363185
Author : John Ringo,Tom Kratman
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743499187
In the dark days after the events in the book Gust Front, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision.
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1028661939
Author : Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey Clarke
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515233790
With the publication of "Riviera to the Rhine", the Center of Military History completes its series of operational histories treating the activities of the U.S. Army's combat forces during World War II. This volume examines the least known of the major units in the European theater, General Jacob L. Devers' 6th Army Group. Under General Devers' leadership, two armies, the U.S. Seventh Army under General Alexander M. Patch and the First French Army led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landing on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille in August 1944, cleared the enemy out of southern France and then turned east and joined with army groups under Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and General Omar N. Bradley in the final assault on Germany. In detailing the campaign of these Riviera-based armies, the authors have concentrated on the operational level of war, paying special attention to the problems of joint, combined, and special operations and to the significant roles of logistics, intelligence, and personnel policies in these endeavors. They have also examined in detail deception efforts at the tactical and operational levels, deep battle penetrations, river-crossing efforts, combat in built-up areas, and tactical innovations at the combined arms level.
Author : James M. Fenelon
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501179372
In this viscerally exciting account, a paratrooper-turned-historian reveals the details of World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany’s last line of defense and gutted Hitler’s war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory—the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history’s footnotes. Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air, Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II’s most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.
Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 1407221272
History.
Author : Douglas Niles,Michael Dobson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812574664
A thrilling tale of a war that might have been. Their Fhrer is dead, but a cadre of SS officers back Himmler to seize control of the Third Reich and attempt to change the course of the war. They first form an armistice with Russia, then appoint the legendary "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel to lead the European theater into a confrontation with General George Patton that will determine the fate of Europe--and perhaps the free world. (June)
Author : Derek S. Zumbro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Peter Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Rhine River Valley
ISBN : 1566197473
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0670918679
Operation Market Garden, the plan in 1944 to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept- the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. It was the greatest demonstration of paratroop power ever seen - but the cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination for heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths, not least that victory was even possible. Antony Beevor, using many overlooked and new sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of this epic clash. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war.
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472803795
The Rhine River represented the last natural defensive barrier for the Third Reich in the autumn of 1944. Although Hitler had been reluctant to allow the construction of tactical defence lines in France, the final defense of the Reich was another matter. As a result, construction of a Rhine defence line began in September 1944. Steven J. Zaloga examines the multiple phases of construction undertaken to strengthen the Westwall (Siegfried Line), to fortify many of the border villages, and finally to prepare for the demolition of the Rhine bridges. Using detailed maps, colour artwork, and expert analysis, this book takes a detailed look at Germany's last line of defence.