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Siegfried
Charles Whiting
其他書名
The Nazis' Last Stand
出版
Cooper Square Publishing, LLC
, 2001
主題
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater
ISBN
0815411669
9780815411666
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vq-ihT03CzIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armored Division crossed the river Our and entered Hitler's Third Reich -- the first hostile forces to penetrate German lines since the days of Napoleon. Above them on the heights they found abandoned bunkers of the vaunted Siegfried Line: a three-mile-deep series of fortifications with pillboxes, troop shelters, command posts, and antitank obstacles that ran along Germany's western frontier opposite the French Maginot Line. Four years earlier, British troops had boasted in song that they would hang their washing on the Siegfried Line, and now it seemed as if the Americans would fulfill that vow. But appearances proved as deceptive in 1944 as they had in 1940. By October, Allied troops were bogged down in one of the war's most bitter battles. Where the Siegfried Line ran through "the green hell" of the Huertgen Forest, three U.S. divisions were decimated. In December Hitler struck back, launching the Ardennes Offensive (also known as the Battle of the Bulge) from behind the Siegfried Line. Even after Generals Patton and Montgomery broke through in February 1945, two-thirds of the Siegfried Line still held firm in German hands. This masterful history recounts a crucial and compelling campaign in the twentieth-century epic that was World War II. - Publisher.