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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Wehrmacht's last stand
    sub title: the German campaigns of 1944-1945
  name:
    name part: Citino, Robert Michael
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 615 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution, Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a 'war of movement, ' inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat. The Wehrmacht's Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or 'death ride,' from January 1944, with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine, until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino's previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht's Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army's strategy, operations and performance against the Allies in World War II.
  table of contents: In the Cauldron : The Battle of the Korsun Pocket -- In the Mountains : The Battle for Italy -- On the Beach : The D-Day Landing [Normandy and Beyond] -- In the Middle : The Smashing of the Central Front -- In the West : The Campaign in France -- On the Run : The East -- On the Run : The West -- The Last Battle -- Five Minutes Past Midnight -- The Last Stand.
  note: Robert M. Citino.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Western Front
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Eastern Front
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: World War II
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Germany
  classification: D757 .C597 2017
  classification: 940.54/21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Modern war studies
  identifier: 9780700624942
  identifier: 0700624945
  identifier: 9780700624959
  identifier: 2017026680
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170605
    record change date: 20180430074925.0
    record identifier: in00003897403