Race To The Rhine

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760723180
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race for the Rhine Bridges written by Alexander McKee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few World War II actions rival the dramatic battles for the bridges crossing the Rhine and its branches. In 1940, capture of the Arnhem, Nijmegen, and Maas-Waal crossings was the key to Germany's lightning conquest of the Netherlands; in 1944, the Allies' recapture of those bridges was vital to the planned invasion of north-western Germany and thrust into the Ruhr Valley industrial heartland. The strategy and execution of the Allies' airborne strikes are still debated because of their mixed results and high human costs. A participant in the 1945 battle for the Emmerich bridge, Alexander McKee provides an enthralling account of the 1940, 1944, and 1945 operations, all ambitious and innovative in their combinations of airpower and paratroop units with ground forces. He tellingly contrasts Germany's brilliant 1940 success at Arnhem, carried off with bravura against determined Dutch resistance, with the Allies' strategically costly failures in 1944 and their hard-won success in 1945, including the Remagen coup -the capture of an intact bridge that carried the Allied forces deep into Germany. McKee's account covers not only the foresights and flaws in planning and the successes and setbacks of execution, but also the intensity and horrors of battle.

Author : Iris Wigger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349594856
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 'Black Horror on the Rhine' written by Iris Wigger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting French occupation troops from colonial Africa on German soil and using stereotypical images of 'racially primitive', sexually depraved black soldiers threatening and raping 'white women' in 1920s Germany to generate widespread public concern about their presence. The campaign became an international phenomenon in Post-WWI Europe, and had followers throughout Europe, the US and Australia. Wigger examines the campaign's combination of race, gender, nation and class as categories of social inclusion and exclusion, which led to the formation of a racist conglomerate of interlinked discriminations. Her book offers readers a rare insight into a widely forgotten chapter of popular racism in Europe, and sets out the benefits of a historically reflexive study of racialised discourse and its intersectionality.

Author : Leo Marriott
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612003265
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race to the Rhine written by Leo Marriott and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel across the battlefields of WWII with this beautiful book combining historical images, full-color aerial photography, and informative text. In June 1944, Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France, beginning a sweep of fierce battles that would eventually liberate Western Europe. With aerial photography, historic images, maps, and other illustrations, Race to the Rhine brings readers to the fateful grounds where men sacrificed their lives for freedom. The destruction of German forces in Normandy’s Falaise pocket was a decisive victory: by September, British troops were in Ghent and Liege; Canadian forces liberated Ostend, and in northeast France, Patton’s Third Army was moving rapidly to the German border. The liberation of the Low Countries would not prove as straightforward, however. Operation Market Garden—Montgomery’s brave thrust toward the Rhine at Arnhem—ended in failure with over six thousand paratroopers captured. In late October, belated operations began to clear the Scheldt Estuary and open the port of Antwerp to the Allies. Belgium was almost free of the Nazi yoke, and the Netherlands looked likely to be cleared before Christmas. Then, on December 16, came a major German counter-offensive in the Ardennes. It turned out to be Hitler’s last try: the American defenders held, and in the spring, the Rhine was finally gained. Perfect for the armchair traveler or for those who want a historic guide as they visit significant sites, Race to the Rhine supplies essential information on the places that best represent the battles today.

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780890834602
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race for the Rhine written by Alexander McKee and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 1979-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0743499182
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watch on the Rhine written by John Ringo and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark days after the events in the book Gust Front, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision.

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330240222
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race for the Rhine Bridges, 1940, 1944, 1945 written by Alexander McKee and published by Pan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The pilgrims of the Rhine. The coming race written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781612008509
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across the Rhine written by Simon Forty and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavily illustrated title covering the advance of the US, Canadian and British Armies west into Germany in 1945.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lauren DeStefano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442409061
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wither written by Lauren DeStefano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.