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Armageddon : the battle for Germany, 1944-45 /

by Hastings, Max.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Pan, 2005Description: xxiv, 660 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780330490627 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5421Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front | Warfare and Defence | Second World War | European history | History | Battles & campaigns | Europe | c 1940 to c 1949 | General & world history | Western Europe | Germany | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Contents:
<ul style='padding-top:0;padding-left:0;list-style:none;'><li><ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'><li>Introduction - i: Introduction</li><li>Section - ii: The Principal Commanders and their Forces</li></ul></li><li>Chapter - 1: Time of Hope</li><li>Chapter - 2: The Bridges to Arnhem</li><li>Chapter - 3: The Frontiers of Germany</li><li>Chapter - 4: The Russians at the Vistula</li><li>Chapter - 5: Winter Quarters</li><li>Chapter - 6: Germany Beseiged</li><li>Chapter - 7: Hell in the Hurtgen</li><li>Chapter - 8: The Bulge: An American Epic</li><li>Chapter - 9: Stalin's Offensive</li><li>Chapter - 10: Blood and Ice: East Prussia</li><li>Chapter - 11: Firestorms: War in the Sky</li><li>Chapter - 12: Marching on the Rhine</li><li>Chapter - 13: Prisoners of the Reich</li><li>Chapter - 14: Collapse in the West</li><li>Chapter - 15: 'The Earth Will Shake As We Leave The Scene'</li><li>Chapter - 16: The Bitter End</li><li><ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'><li>Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements</li><li>Section - iv: Sources and References</li><li>Index - v: Index</li></ul></li></ul>
Summary: One of the greatest military feats during the World War II was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies inflicted the greatest catastrophe of modern war on them. This is the story of the last eight months of the war. One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks and to prolong the war to 1945. This book is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe. 'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' Times Literary Supplement 'Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' Financial Times
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Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

<ul style='padding-top:0;padding-left:0;list-style:none;'><li><ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'><li>Introduction - i: Introduction</li><li>Section - ii: The Principal Commanders and their Forces</li></ul></li><li>Chapter - 1: Time of Hope</li><li>Chapter - 2: The Bridges to Arnhem</li><li>Chapter - 3: The Frontiers of Germany</li><li>Chapter - 4: The Russians at the Vistula</li><li>Chapter - 5: Winter Quarters</li><li>Chapter - 6: Germany Beseiged</li><li>Chapter - 7: Hell in the Hurtgen</li><li>Chapter - 8: The Bulge: An American Epic</li><li>Chapter - 9: Stalin's Offensive</li><li>Chapter - 10: Blood and Ice: East Prussia</li><li>Chapter - 11: Firestorms: War in the Sky</li><li>Chapter - 12: Marching on the Rhine</li><li>Chapter - 13: Prisoners of the Reich</li><li>Chapter - 14: Collapse in the West</li><li>Chapter - 15: 'The Earth Will Shake As We Leave The Scene'</li><li>Chapter - 16: The Bitter End</li><li><ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'><li>Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements</li><li>Section - iv: Sources and References</li><li>Index - v: Index</li></ul></li></ul>

One of the greatest military feats during the World War II was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies inflicted the greatest catastrophe of modern war on them. This is the story of the last eight months of the war. One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks and to prolong the war to 1945. This book is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe. 'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' Times Literary Supplement 'Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' Financial Times

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