[PDF] The Battle For The Rhineland eBook

Author : Reginald W. Thompson
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594161704

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A critical study of the final British and American strategy against the German Army during World War II.

Author : Ken Ford
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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In early 1945 Allied Armies attempted to enter Germany by seizing the west bank of the Rhine. The Germans opened the Roer dams and the ensuing battle was characterized by amphibious attacks, frontal assaults on the much vaunted Siegfried Line and grim fighting for the Reichswald Forest.

Author : Reginald William Thompson
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1958
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :

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Bogen beskriver slagene vest for Nedre Rhin i november-december 1944 og de første måneder af 1945. Kampen om Rhinlandet; Rhinen; Reichwald; Schmidt; Heinsland.

Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 155584815X

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“The fighting spirit of Allied paratroopers comes through with exciting clarity” in this account of two separate invasions of Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews). A main selection of the Military Book Club In September 1944, as the Allies drove across Europe after Normandy, British field marshal Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Market Garden to secure the lower Rhine—Germany’s last great natural barrier in the west—and passage to Berlin. Though Allied soldiers outnumbered Germans two to one, they suffered devastating casualties and were forced to retreat. Then, in March 1945, Montgomery orchestrated another airborne attack on the Rhine, called Operation Plunder. This time the Allies overwhelmed the German defenses, secured the eastern bank, and began their final march into the heart of the Third Reich. Including detailed maps and personal accounts from those on both sides of the battle, this “vivid war story” examines Allied attempts to breach Germany’s borders, and illustrates how lessons learned from failure helped form the second plan of attack—and seal Germany’s defeat (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Mark Stout, Harry Yeide
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616739652

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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 : Douglas Niles
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812574661

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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 : Jordan R. Hayworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1108497454

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Shows how revolutionary France's war for liberty in the Rhineland was transformed into a war for conquest.