Battle for the Ruhr

Derek S. Zumbro

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: University Press of Kansas, US, 2006

0700614907 / 9780700614905

Serie: Libro 101 di 183 - Modern War Studies

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With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse. The ensuing battles on German soil - especially those in the so-called Ruhr Pocket - were as fierce and hard-fought as any in the European theater. Going well beyond previous accounts, Derek Zumbro chronicles this key military campaign from a unique and fresh perspective - that of the defeated German soldiers and civilians caught in the final maelstrom of the war's western front. Best known for his translation of ""In Deadly Combat"", the bestselling World War II memoir, Zumbro chronicles the relentless assault on the Ruhr Pocket through German eyes, as the Allied juggernaut battered the region's cities, villages, and homes into submission. He tells of children pressed into service by a desperate Nazi regime - and of even more desperate parents trying to save their sons from sacrifice at the eleventh hour. He also tells of unspeakable conditions suffered by foreign laborers, POWs, and political opponents in the Ruhr Valley and of the mass graves that gave Allied soldiers a grisly new understanding of their enemy. Zumbro also recounts the story of Field Marshal Walter Model's final hours. His eventual suicide effectively ended the existence of the Wehrmacht's once-formidable Army Group B after being pursued, methodically encircled, and finally destroyed by U.S. and British forces. Through interviews with surviving members of Model's former staff, Zumbro has uncovered the attitudes - and harrowing experiences - of beleaguered officers that official records could never convey. Other interviews with former soldiers reveal the extent to which Allied bombing contributed to the rapid deterioration of German combat effectiveness and tell of civilians begging soldiers to abandon the war. Zumbro's deep research reveals the identities of specific characters discussed in previous works but never identified, describes the final hours of German officers executed for the loss of the bridge at Remagen, and offers new insight into Model's acquiescence to Hitler in military affairs. By taking us inside the first-hand experiences and memories of Germans from Reichsmarshals to Burgermeisters, ""Battle for the Ruhr"" gives a profound and harrowing ground-level view of the enormous destructive power of war.…

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Titolo
Battle for the Ruhr
Autore
Derek S. Zumbro
Editore
University Press of Kansas, US
Anno di pubblicazione
2006
Condizione
New
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0700614907
ISBN 13
9780700614905
Peso dell'articolo
828 grammi
Dimensioni
6.25 x 1.75 x 9 inches
Serie
Libro 101 di 183: Modern War Studies

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