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The Siegfried Line: The German Defense of the West Wall, September-December 1944

By Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

Book information

Publisher
Stackpole Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9781461751632
ASIN
B01G9EYMIQ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12935743 bytes)
Series
Stackpole Military History Series
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-08-05 06:58:09
History; Military; Nonfiction; HIS027060; HIS02710

Description

The battles for the Germans' last line of defense in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and MetzHow German commanders made decisions under fireBuilt as a series of forts, bunkers, and tank traps, the West Wall—known as the Siegfried Line to the Allies—stretched along Germany's western border. After D-Day in June 1944, as the Allies raced across France and threatened to pierce into the Reich, the Germans fell back on the West Wall. In desperate fighting—among the war's worst—the Germans held off the Allies for several months.

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