Description
Book SynopsisThe reader can re-live this momentous period of history by examining maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters and labels which up till now have remained exclusively in museums.
Table of ContentsD-Day • The Battle of Normandy • Operation Dragoon • The V Weapons Threat • To the Borders of the Reich • Market-Garden: The Drop • Market Garden: To Nijmegen • Market Garden: Arnhem • Clearing the Scheldt Estuary • Aachen and Hürtgen Forest • Patton's Progress • Battle of the Bulge: Onslaught • Battle of the Bulge: Crisis • Battle of the Bulge: Counterblow • The Yalta Conference • Breaking the Siegfried Line • Bridge at Remagen • Operations Varsity & Plunder • The Encirclement of the Ruhr • Allez la France! • The Bombing of Germany • British and Canadian Advances • The Concentration Camps • The Elbe & the Eagle's Nest • Hitler's Last Days • To the Baltic and Denmark • Unconditional Surrender • VE Day Celebrations • Index.
