Steven J. Zaloga

Siegfried Line 1944-45 (eBook, ePUB)

Battles on the German frontier
Illustrator: Noon, Steve

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The campaign on the German frontier in late 1944 was one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the ETO. The Allies first encountered the Siegfried Line (Westwall) fortifications in September 1944, having pursued the retreating Wehrmacht through Belgium and the Netherlands. The border area around Aachen had been fortified with a double line of bunkers, and both the terrain and the weather made things difficult for the Allies. This book focuses on the involvement of the US First and Ninth armies in the six-month fighting, including the hellish fighting for the Hürtgen forest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472800183
• Artikelnr.: 40469203

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
The strategic situation
Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Opposing plans
The campaign
The campaign in retrospect
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index