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  title info:
    title: Race to the Rhine
    sub title: Liberating France and the Low Countries 1944-45
  name:
    name part: Leo Marriott; Simon Forty.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Casemate
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (192)
  abstract: Travel across the battlefields of WWII with this beautiful book combining historical images, full-color aerial photography, and informative text. In June, 1944, Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France, beginning a sweep of fierce battles that would eventually liberate Western Europe. With aerial photography, historic images, maps, and other illustrations, Race to the Rhine brings readers to the fateful grounds where men sacrificed their lives for freedom. The destruction of German forces in Normandy's Falaise pocket was a decisive victory: by September, British troops were in Ghent and Liege; Canadian forces liberated Ostend, and in northeast France, Patton's Third Army was moving rapidly to the German border. The liberation of the Low Countries would not prove as straightforward, however. Operation Market Garden'Montgomery's brave thrust toward the Rhine at Arnhem'ended in failure with over 6,000 paratroopers captured. In late October, belated operations began to clear the Scheldt Estuary and open the port of Antwerp to the Allies. Belgium was almost free of the Nazi yoke and the Netherlands looked likely to be cleared before Christmas. Then, on December 16, came a major German counter-offensive in the Ardennes. It turned out to be Hitler's last try: the American defenders held, and in the spring the Rhine was finally gained. Perfect for the armchair traveler or for those who want a historic guide as they visit significant sites, Race to the Rhine supplies essential information on the places that best represent the battles today.
  table of contents: Introduction: Breakout; Operation Cobra; The Falaise Pocket; Air Support; Naval Support; Logistics; Bridging; Mines and Boobytraps; 1 The Advance Across France; Crossing the Seine; Operation Dragoon; Liberating Paris; Patton's Advance; 2 Clearing The French Coast; Boulogne; Cap Gris Nez; Calais; Battery Oldenburg; V-Weapons; 3 Liberating Belgium; Brigade Piron; Polish 1st Armored Division; Ghent; Brussels; US First Army; 4 Operation Market Garden; 101st Airborne; 82nd Airborne; 1st Airborne Division; Polish 1st Independent Para Brigade; The Oosterbeek Perimeter; 5 Battle of the Bulge.
  table of contents: Sixth Panzerarmee in the NorthFifth Panzerarmee in the Center; Seventh Armee in the South; The Allied Counterattack; Reaching the Rhine; 6 Liberating the Netherlands; Walcheren and the Scheldt; Operation Aintree; Blerick; Operation Blackcock; Battle for the Rhineland; The End in the North; 7 Remembering the Dead; Select Bibliography; Credits and Acknowledgments; Index.
  note: cush mil copy transferred to Cushing Library, Ragan Collection from the Bush School DC in June, 2021
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: history (discipline)
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: Pictorial
  subject:
    topic: History
  classification: D761
  classification: 940.5421
  identifier: 1612003265
  identifier: 9781612003269
  identifier: 976157 MIL
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    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 161209
    record change date: 20251110155300.9
    record identifier: in00005669326
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng