Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand - Softcover

Whiting, Charles

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9780815411666: Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815411669 ISBN 13: 9780815411666

Publisher: UNKNO, 2001

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Charles Whiting's account of the Allied advance into Nazi Germany focuses on the months from September of 1944, when the Allies attacked the "West Wall" defending the western border of Germany, to the Allied crossing of the Rhine in March, 1945. Whiting describes the German counterattack in December that turned into the devastating Battle of the Bulge, and the Battle of the Rhineland that followed as the Allies pressed into Germany. Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Montgomery take center stage in this book, which also draws from the accounts of officers and enlisted men as they fought their way through Europe's war-torn landscape.

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About the Author:

Charles Whiting is the author of several books on World War II. He lives in York, England.

Review:

The Siegried Line or the West Wall, as the Germans called it, enabled the Wehrmacht to prolong the war for six months and even to mount the Ardennes Offensive from behind its cover. Whiting was there at the time, at the sharp end, and is a skilled and prolific writer. His comments on the generals are apt....An important book that records one of the most difficult yet least publicised phases of the war. (The Spectator)

Whiting is a very experienced popular military historian who gets the last ounce of drama from the bloody battles in the West between September 1944 and February 1945. (London Times)

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