Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket, 1944–45
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"The difficult fighting in the Colmar Pocket is brought to vivid life" in this WWII chronicle of the Allied 6th Army Group (WWII History).
By the fall of 1944, the Western Allied forces appeared to be unstoppable. The summer's Normandy invasion had driven the Germans out of northern France and most of the Low Countries. In September, they liberated France's southern coast with little opposition. Then, Allied divisions began lining up along the Rhine.
While the Americans met a nasty surprise in the Ardennes, the Germans also held on to the province of Alsace, maintaining a hard pocket around the city of Colmar. On New Year's Eve, they launched Operation Northwind, a counteroffensive that nearly put Allied forces back on their heels. On January 12, 1945, Eisenhower could only tell George Marshall that Colmar was "a very bad thorn in our side today."
This is the story of the Sixth Army Group, a unit that combined US and French forces, and its unexpectedly bloody and protracted battle for the Colmar Pocket. Amidst a horrific winter and rough terrain, interspersed by demolished towns, the Allied Army Group traded blows with the German 19th in a ferocious campaign. This book informs us fully of the tremendous and costly struggle waged in an often-neglected sector of World War II's European Theater.
© 2015 Casemate (E-bog): 9781612003238
Udgivelsesdato
E-bog: 19. oktober 2015
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