Author: Timm Haasler Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0811769291 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 593
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Hold the Westwall is the dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of Germany's experimental independent armored brigades, and its formation, deployment (including its defense of the Siegfried Line), and ultimate destruction. Relying heavily on primary documents and interviews, it also presents American accounts of what it was like to fight the brigade. It is the first book in English on Germany’s failed experiment with independent armored brigades in World War II.
Author: Timm HAASLER Publisher: ISBN: 9780811739368 Category : Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
Hold the Westwall is the dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of Germany's experimental independent armored brigades, and its formation, deployment (including its defense of the Siegfried Line), and ultimate destruction. Relying heavily on primary documents and interviews, it also presents American accounts of what it was like to fight the brigade. It is the first book in English on Germany's failed experiment with independent armored brigades in World War II.
Author: Steven J. Zaloga Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1849083886 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
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.
Author: Thomas D. Turner Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456752936 Category : Languages : en Pages : 218
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Duncan, an archeologist, finds a satellite city of Atlantis inside a mountain. After his team excavates the site, the archeologist becomes ill, and he goes into a coma. While unconscious, Duncan experiences the last days of the Atlantian Empire.In Duncan's adventures, he sees the political struggles which lead to the demise of Atlantis. The Atlantians have to fight for their race as their competing empires have different religions, politics and greed. Honor, duty, friendship, and religion are the only things that can keep them from being completely wiped off the face of the Earth. Day gun, the Atlantian emperor's son, sees what his friends and family will do to for their empire. Daygun has to make hard decisions for his homeland.When Duncan comes back from his adventures, he looks at the world differently. In his mind, it is not his discovery of the lost city, but what he sees in the similarities of today's world.
Author: Steven J. Zaloga Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472800176 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
The gripping tale of the Battle of Remagen, where the Allies' dramatic capture of the last standing bridge over the Rhine in 1945 changed the course of World War II-illustrated with vivid artwork that brings the tension and triumph to life. In the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge in February 1945, the Allies embarked upon the final assault of Germany. The long-delayed US thrust over the Roer River eventually took place in February, leaving the Rhine as the last major geographical barrier to the Allied advance into Germany. This book describes how the US Army, in the face of furious last-ditch German resistance, captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen – securing the last surviving major crossing over the Rhine and setting the stage for the defeat of the German Army in the West.
Author: Robert W. Baumer Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 0811714829 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 434
Book Description
By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of Charlemagne's empire and now firmly entrenched within Germany's Siegfried Line fortifications. The city was on the verge of capitulating until Hitler forbade surrender. • Dramatic story of the American battle for Aachen, the first city on German soil to fall to the Allies in World War II. • Chronicles the six weeks of hard combat for the city, culminating in eight days of fighting in the streets • Details the involvement of some of the U.S. Army's finest units, including the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 30th Infantry Division ("Roosevelt's SS"), and the 2nd Armored Division ("Hell on Wheels")
Author: Douglas Niles Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780765343994 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 676
Book Description
In the wake of Hitler's death and Rommel's surrender to General Patton, the former foes join forces to take on a new enemy in the East where Stalin is preparing to lead the Soviet Union in a power grab that will jeopardize all Europe.
Author: William Stuart Nance Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813169623 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 307
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In Sabers through the Reich, William Stuart Nance provides the first comprehensive operational history of American corps cavalry in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II. The corps cavalry had a substantive and direct impact on Allied success in almost every campaign, and served as offensive guards for armies across Europe, conducting reconnaissance, economy of force, and security missions, as well as prisoner of war rescues. From D-Day and Operation Cobra to the Battle of the Bulge and the drive to the Rhine, these groups had the mobility, flexibility, and firepower to move quickly across the battlefield, enabling them to aid communications and intelligence gathering, reducing the Clausewitzian "friction of war."
Author: James Lucas Publisher: Frontline Books ISBN: 1848327382 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The German army in the Second World War sought to fight and win swift, decisive victories in a succession of short campaigns _ blitzkrieg, or lightning war. Flexibility was as essential as the will to win. Battle groups, or shock troops, were created from miscellaneous, and often disparate military units to undertake a specific local operation; it was the army's skill in combining superior numbers, aggressive tactics and the battle group commander's ability to exploit the changing situation on the ground which brought success on the battlefield.??The actions described here cover all theatres of the war, and include battle groups large and small, deployed usually to smash a breach in the enemy line or seal off an enemy penetration. It covers operations in the first dynamic years when Wehrmacht forces defeated the armies of one European country after another in fast campaigns, through to the years after Stalingrad and Africa as they moved towards defeat. ??The battle groups' contribution to Wehrmacht fortunes offer powerful lessons in the tactics of battle management and this book by James Lucas, a military historian known for his close studies of the German soldier, is considered to be one of the most detailed and authoritative accounts on the subject.
Author: Timm Haasler
Author: Timm HAASLER
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Author: Thomas D. Turner
Author: Charles Brown MacDonald
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Author: Robert W. Baumer
Author: Douglas Niles
Author: William Stuart Nance
Author: James Lucas