1945: Victory in the West Audiobook Libro.fm

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March 1945 Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany Victory is finally within their grasp But if they believe this victory can be easily won they face swift disillusionment The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought village by village town by town

In Victory in the West 1945 acclaimed military historian Peter CaddickAdams brings this closing stage of the Allies fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life He explores the immense challenges they faced in crossing the Rhine on a 300mile front He tells stories of individual acts of resolve and heroism of often exhausted troops pressing forward attacks in the face of ferocious resistance He recounts their shocked first encounters with the barbarities of Hitlers regime as they reached the gates of Buchenwald Belsen and Dachau And he goes behind the front line to analyse the strategic decisions made at Allied headquarters and to offer pinsharp portraits of the military leaders

Throughout he draws on a vast range of memoirs and personal interviews with survivors to give a vivid sense of what it was like to encounter enemy combatants and civilians face to face Compulsively readable this will be the standard work on the closing days of the Second World War for a generation

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