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Author Seidler, Hans, author.

Title Hitler's defeat on the Western Front, 1944-1945 : rare photographs from wartime archives / Hans Seidler
Published South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Images of war
Images of war.
Contents Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prelude to Disaster; Chapter One Defending Northern France; Chapter Two Battles in Holland and Belgium; Chapter Three Defending the Rhine; Chapter Four Last Battles in the West; Appendix One Weapons Composition, 1944; Appendix Two Composition of an Infantry and Panzergrenadier Division; Appendix Three Order of Battle: 6 June 1944; Appendix Four Order of Battle: Holland, September 1944; Appendix Five Order of Battle: Ardennes, 15 December 1944; Appendix Six Order of Battle: Defence on the Western Front, March & April 1945
Summary Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front. Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by copious, well captioned contemporary images, the reader witnesses the intensity of the fighting from the Normandy beaches, through France and the Low Countries and finally into Germany itself. Despite demoralizing withdrawals and reversals the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Hitlerjugend, Volkssturm with many barely trained conscripts, continued to fight tenaciously inflicting significant losses on their superior enemy. The graphic images are testimony to their exhaustion and resilience but defeat became increasingly certain. Even when the Allies crossed the Rhine in early 1945 with the Russians closing on Berlin from the East, the shattered remnants of Hitler's once all-conquering forces had nowhere to go. That did not stop fanatical elements fighting to the death but the bulk of the survivors accepted surrender as inevitable. This superbly illustrated book captures the drama of that historic period
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Pictorial works
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Military campaigns
Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526731586
1526731584