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Across the Rhine: January?May 1945
by Simon Forty
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Synopsis : The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west by a massive concentration of Allied forces and firepower. With France secured, Hitler?s vain counterattack in the Ardennes held and the Channel and North Sea ports cleared, little stood in the way of the Allies other than the dominant geographical feature of western Europe: the mighty Rhine River stretching from the North Sea almost to Switzerland.In the north, the 21st Army Group executed one of the largest operations of the war: a huge airdrop backed up by an amphibious crossing that made full use of 79th Armoured Division?s specialized armor including the Alligators of 4th Royal Tank Regiment. Further south, until it collapsed under the pressure, the Ludendorff Bridge, captured intact at Remagen allowed US First Army to create a bridgehead. They would use it to good effect, wheeling north to surround the Ruhr, Germany?s industrial heartland. Further south, where the river was narrower, Patton?s Third Army vaulted
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Author : Simon Forty
Pages : 224 pages
Publisher : Casemate
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ISBN-10 : 161200850X
ISBN-13 : 9781612008509