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The Westwall Siegfried Line 1938 1945

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Author : Jean-Denis Lepage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01-01

The Westwall Siegfried Line 1938 1945 written by Jean-Denis Lepage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with categories.

This is the history of the fortifications known as the Siegfried Line. It provides a discussion of each type of standardized fortification and provides an illustration and a cross-section of it.

West Wall

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Author : Charles Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

West Wall written by Charles Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Siegfried Line (Germany) categories.

West Wall

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Author : Charles Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

West Wall written by Charles Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.

The Siegfried Line

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Author : Daniel Taylor
language : en
Publisher: After the Battle
Release Date : 2024-04-04

The Siegfried Line written by Daniel Taylor and has been published by After the Battle this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-04 with History categories.

Features hundreds of maps, illustrations and historical photographs. The book comes in three distinct sections – the first is an in-depth analysis of the German 'Westwall' defense system built between 1936 and 1944. This includes the build phases, the organization of the workforce and the political background. The second section looks at the Allied campaign to overcome the defenses of the Siegfried Line through the winter of 1944/45, focussing on three major operations by the US, British and Canadian armies. The third section deals with the perception of the Westwall in the eighty years since the war and then outlines a battlefield tour guide of those elements that still survive. This book includes maps, photographs and illustrations. Of these, around 140 are in a color section making up the concluding section of the book.

West Wall

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Author : Charles Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

West Wall written by Charles Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Siegfried Line (Germany) categories.

Germany S West Wall

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Author : Neil Short
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2004-01-22

Germany S West Wall written by Neil Short and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-22 with History categories.

The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it) played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe. Constructed in the period immediately after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, the Wall stretched for 300 miles from Cleve in the north to the Swiss Border and consisted of some 14,000 pillboxes. The Wall initially blunted the US attack, and Hitler used it as a foundation from which to launch the Ardennes Offensive. This title takes a detailed look at the development and form of this key fortification, examining the principles of its defence in visual depth, and discussing its fate in the wake of the Allied onslaught.

The Siegfried Line

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Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2009-09-17

The Siegfried Line written by Samuel W. Mitcham and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-17 with History categories.

The battles for the Germans' last line of defense in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and Metz How German commanders made decisions under fire Built 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.

The Siegfried Line

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Author : Daniel Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-30

The Siegfried Line written by Daniel Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with categories.

The book comes in three distinct sections - the first is an in-depth analysis of the German 'Westwall' defense system built between 1936 and 1944. This includes the build phases, the organization of the workforce and the political background. The second section looks at the Allied campaign to overcome the defenses of the Siegfried Line through the winter of 1944/45, focussing on three major operations by the US, British and Canadian armies. The third section deals with the perception of the Westwall in the eighty years since the war and then outlines a battlefield tour guide of those elements that still survive. Up to 700 images including maps, photographs and illustrations. Of these, around 120 are in a color section making up the concluding section of the book.

West Wall

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Author : Charles Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

West Wall written by Charles Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Siegfried Line (Germany) categories.

Roer River Battles

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Author : David R. Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2010-07-26

Roer River Battles written by David R. Higgins and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-26 with History categories.

An account of the ups and downs of a six-month-long WWII campaign with “a well detailed chronological order of the battles [and] interesting photographs” (Armorama). A selection of the Military Book Club. Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and US forces fanned out across northwestern France, enemy resistance unexpectedly dissolved into a headlong retreat to the German and Belgian borders. In early September, an elated Allied High Command had every expectation of continuing their momentum to cripple the enemy’s warmaking capability by capturing the Ruhr industrial complex and plunging into the heart of Germany. After a brief pause to allow for resupply, Courtney Hodge’s First Army prepared to punch through the ominous but largely outdated Westwall, the Siegfried Line, surrounding Aachen. But during the lull, German commanders such as the “lion of defense,” Walter Model, reorganized depleted units and mounted an increasingly potent defense. Though the German Replacement Army funneled considerable numbers to the front, they too often strained an overburdened supply system and didn’t greatly enhance existing combat formations. More importantly, the panzer divisions, once thought irretrievably destroyed, were resupplied and reinvigorated. When the Allied offensive resumed, it ran into a veritable brick wall—gains measured in yards, not miles, if any were made at all. While both sides suffered equally in an urbanized environment of pillbox-infested hills, impenetrable forests, and freezing rain, the Germans were on the defensive and better able to inflict casualties out of proportion to their own. For the US First Army, what was originally to be a walk-through turned into a frustrating six-month campaign that decimated infantry and tank forces alike. The “broad front,” as opposed to a “Schwerpunkt” strategy, led to the demise of many a citizen-soldier. Drawing on primary Wehrmacht and US sources, including battle analysis and daily situation and after-action reports, The Roer River Battles provides insight into the desperate German efforts to keep a conquering enemy at the borders of their homeland. Tactical maps down to battalion-level help clarify the very fluid nature of the combat. Combined, they serve to explain not just how, but why decisions were made and events unfolded, and how reality often differed from doctrine in one of the longest US campaigns of World War II.