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Paths of Death and Glory: The Last Days of the Third Reich

By Charles Whiting

Book information

Publisher
Casemate
Year
2003
ISBN
1932033165, 9781932033168
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
923 kB (945638 bytes)
Series
West Wall Series
Pages
240\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-01-25 03:07:21

Description

On 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose this war'. The Germans were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in the same positions they had first captured three months before. Would the German will to resist never be broken? Veteran military historian Charles Whiting has assembled the fighting men's individual stories. From material such as interviews and battalion journals he has built up an authentic picture of the Allied fighting man, so that the reader sees and feels what it was actually like to be there. Whiting vividly conveys the experiences and responses of the ordinary soldier who knew that for some of his comrades the paths that would lead to glory could also lead to death

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