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Fire and Steel - Peter Caddick-Adams |
- By Hawkeye7
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As the Second World War fades into history, interest fades. What remains is very uneven. There seems to be little written about the campaigns in North West Europe in 1945. Delayed by the German offensives in the Ardennes and Alsace, the campaigns of 1945 commenced in the Rhineland in mud and flood conditions far worse than those of 1917. Once across the river, Allied units took off in pursuit of what German ones remained. Increasingly these were scratch formations hurriedly thrown together that looked good only on maps. German units became immobile due to lack of fuel.
The defence of many localities in Germany fell to the aged men of the
This book is the third in a trilogy on the campaigns in North West Europe. It is mostly assembled from personal accounts, but the author is cognisant of recent scholarship. He notes inconsistencies and improbabilities in American accounts of the Rhine crossings. At times it also has aspects of a travelogue, with notes about what the sites look like today.
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Bennett, Stephen (2021). Elite Participation in the Third Crusade. Melton, United Kingdom: Boydell & Brewer.
- Doss, Jacob (April 2023). "Review of Bennett, Stephen, Elite Participation in the Third Crusade". H-War, H-Net Reviews.
Davies, Huw J. (2022). The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
- Faulkner, Richard S. (28 April 2023). "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War". Military Review. Army University Press.
Brescia, Maurizio (2022). Italian Heavy Cruisers: From Trento to Bolzano. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth Publishing.
- Mortimer, John (10 April 2023). "Italian Heavy Cruisers From Trento to Bolzano". Australian Naval Institute.
Mahler, Michael D. (2021). Tales from the Cold War: The U.S. Army in West Germany, 1960 to 1975. Dahlonega, Georgia: University Press of North Georgia.
- Li, Kevin (26 April 2023). "#Reviewing Tales from the Cold War". The Strategy Bridge.
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- Ricks, Thomas E. (27 April 2023). "The Middle Ages Had Horses. We Have Computer Chips". The New York Times.
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