Author: Charles Brown MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles Brown MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles B. MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944961305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
To many an Allied soldier and officer and to countless armchair strategists, World War II in Europe appeared near an end when in late summer of 1944 Allied armies raced across northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg to the very gates of Germany. That this was not, in fact, the case was a painful lesson that the months of September, October, November, and December would make clear with stark emphasis. The story of the sweep from Normandy to the German frontier has been told in the already published Breakout and Pursuit. The present volume relates the experiences of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies, the First Allied Airborne Army, and those American units which fought under British and Canadian command, on the northern flank of the battle front that stretched across the face of Europe from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean. The operations of the Third U.S. Army in the center, from mid-September through mid-December, have been recounted in The Lorraine Campaign; those of the Seventh U.S. Army on the south will be told in The Riviera to the Rhine, a volume in preparation. Unlike the grand sweep of the pursuit, the breaching of the West Wall called for the most grueling kind of fighting. Huge armies waged the campaign described' in this book, but the individual soldier, pitting his courage and stamina against harsh elements as well as a stubborn enemy, emerges as the moving spirit of these armies. In the agony of the Huertgen Forest, the frustration of MARKET-GARDEN, the savagery of the struggle for Aachen, the valor of the American soldier and his gallant comrades proved the indispensable ingredient of eventual victory.
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles B. MacDonaldPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515233558
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
(Includes maps) To many an Allied soldier and officer and to countless armchair strategists, World War II in Europe appeared near an end when in late summer of 1944 Allied armies raced across northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg to the very gates of Germany. That this was not, in fact, the case was a painful lesson that the months of September, October, November, and December would make clear with stark emphasis. The story of the sweep from Normandy to the German frontier has been told in the already published Breakout and Pursuit. The present volume relates the experiences of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies, the First Allied Airborne Army, and those American units which fought under British and Canadian command, on the northern flank of the battle front that stretched across the face of Europe from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean. The operations of the Third U.S. Army in the center, from mid-September through mid-December, have been recounted in The Lorraine Campaign; those of the Seventh U.S. Army on the south will be told in The Riviera to the Rhine, a volume in preparation. Unlike the grand sweep of the pursuit, the breaching of the West Wall called for the most grueling kind of fighting. Huge armies waged the campaign described' in this book, but the individual soldier, pitting his courage and stamina against harsh elements as well as a stubborn enemy, emerges as the moving spirit of these armies. In the agony of the Huertgen Forest, the frustration of MARKET-GARDEN, the savagery of the struggle for Aachen, the valor of the American soldier and his gallant comrades proved the indispensable ingredient of eventual victory.
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles Brown MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The story of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies from the first crossings of the German border in September 1944 to the enemy's counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December, including the reduction of Aachen, Huertgen Forest, and Operation MARKET-GARDEN in Holland.
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles B. MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Lorraine Campaign
Author: Hugh Marshall ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.
The Siegfried Line Campaign
Author: Charles Brown MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Ardennes
Author: Hugh Marshall ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Guns at Last Light
Author: Rick AtkinsonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250037816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The final volume of the trilogy chronicles the Allied victory in Western Europe, from the brutal struggles in Normandy and at the Battle of the Bulge to the freeing of Paris, as experienced by participants from every level of the military.
Operation Market-Garden 1944 (3)
Author: Ken FordPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472820142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops. Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem, the target of British and Polish airborne troops. Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr. The operation was bold in outlook but risky in concept. Using specially commissioned artwork and detailed analysis, Ken Ford completes this trilogy on Operation Market-Garden by examining this attack which, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. Yet it turned out to be a bridge too far.