First to the Rhine

ISBN: 9780760331460

出版社: Motorbooks Intl

出版年: 2007-8

页数: 376

定价: $ 31.58

装帧: HRD

内容简介

This is the story of the 6th Army Group in France and Germany, from their landing in France on August 5th, 1944. Following the action from the French beaches, across the Vosges Mountains to where the first Allied penetration along the Western Front reached the Rhine. Covering details of Nordwind, the vicious German counteroffensive, and the Allied offensive to clear the Colmar Pocket, this book takes the reader through one of the most important allied offensive actions in Europe, right up to crossing the Rhine and the destruction of the Third Reich. It is invaluable historical reading, and is bound to be of received enthusiastically by anyone with an interest in military affairs and World War II.