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The Roer River Battles: Germany's Stand at the Westwall, 1944–45
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Author
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David R. Higgins.
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Publisher
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Casemate
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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0.95
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ISBN
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9781935149293
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Pages/Publication Date
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256/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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20351
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the German Army seemed on the verge of collapse, yet reorganized to become a ferocious defensive force. Drawing on primary Wehrmacht and U.S. sources, including battle analysis and daily situation and after-action reports, this book provides insight into the desperate German efforts to keep a conquering enemy at the borders of their homeland. Tactical maps down to battalion level help clarify the very fluid nature of the combat, in a history that explains not just how but also why decisions were made, and how reality often differed from doctrine in one of the longest U.S. campaigns of World War II.
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