Siegfried: The Nazi's Last Stand

Description

On 11 September 1944 four soldiers from the US Fifth Armored Division crossed the River Our and entered Hitler’s Third Reich. In front of them, they found the abandoned Siegfried Line: a three-mile-deep series of fortifications running along Germany’s western frontier. Four years earlier, British troops had boasted that they would hang out their washing on the Siegfried Line – and now it seemed as if the Americans would make good on that promise. 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 bitterest battles. This masterful history tells the story of one of the most brutal battles of World War II. Praise for Charles Whiting: ‘Whiting… is a skilled and prolific writer. His comments on the generals are apt… An important book that records one of the most difficult yet least publicised phases of the war’ - Spectator ‘Whiting is a very experienced popular military historian who gets the last ounce of drama from the bloody battles in the West between September 1944 and February 1945’ - The Times Charles Whiting is the author of numerous history books on the Second World War. Under the pen name of Leo Kessler he also wrote a series of bestselling military thrillers, including Guns at Cassino and Valley of the Assassins.