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Siegfried: The Nazis Last Stand
[0815411669]

Siegfried: The Nazis Last Stand
Author: Whiting, Charles
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Year: 2001
ISBN: 0815411669
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 268 pages. On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armored Division crossed the rover Our and entered Hitler's Thrid Reich - the first hostile force to penetrate German lines since the days of Napoleon. Above them on the heights they found abandoned bunkers of the vaunted Siegfried Line: a three-mile-deep series of fortifications and pillboxes, troop shelters, command posts, and antitank obstacles that ran along Germany's western frontier opposite the French Maginot Line. Four year earlier, British troops had boasted in song that they would hang their washing on the Siegfried Line, and now it seemed as if the Americans would fulfill that vow. But appearances proved as deceptive in 1944 as they had in 1940. By October, Allied troops were bogged down in one of the war's most bitter battles. Where the Siegried ran through "the green hell" of the Huertgen Forest, three U.S. divisions were decimated. In December Hitler struck back, launching the Ardennes Offensive from behind the Siegfried Line. Even after Generals Patton and Montgomery broke through in February 1945, two-thirds of the Siegfried Line still held firm in German hands. This masterful history recounts a crucial and compelling campaign in the epic that was World War II
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