ONE MORE RIVER : The Rhine Crossings of 1945, Allen, Peter

New York, 1980, Scribner's, Book Club edition, hard bound in dust jacket, VG/VG- condition, some light dj edge wear, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, xiv, 320 pages, illus, maps, bibliog, index. 

------------------------------------------------ Most accounts of the action in the northwest European theater of World War 2 focus on the battle of the Ardennes , Germany's final offensive. But the Battle for the Rhineland. and the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945 by American. British, and Canadian troops, accounted for some of the most bitterly fought campaigns of all.

One More River reappraises the closing months of the war in Europe. emphasizing the action in the Rhineland: the U.S. Army's assault on the Roer dams: the British push through the Reichswald: the magnificent contribution of the Canadian army: the capture of the bridge at Remagen ; Patton's spectacular drive to the Rhine and his famous nighttime crossing: and the linkup of the Airborne Divisions with the Allied ground forces across the Rhine. 

Always looming in the background is the tension among the senior allied commanders- Montgomery, . Bradley. Patton, and Eisenhower-, their frequent clashes of personality could have threatened the entire campaign.Peter Allen pieces together numerous firsthand accounts and archival material in the most in-depth and important study ever published of the closing stages of the war in Europe.

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