Battle For The Ruhr
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Author | : Derek S. Zumbro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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"Derek Zumbro chronicles this key military campaign from a unique and fresh perspective - that of the defeated German soldiers and civilians caught in the final maelstrom of the war's western front." "Zumbro chronicles the relentless assault on the Ruhr Pocket through German eyes, as the Allied juggernaut battered the region's cities, villages, and homes into submission. He tells of children pressed into service by a desperate Nazi regime - and of even more desperate parents trying to save their sons from sacrifice at the eleventh hour. He also tells of unspeakable conditions suffered by foreign laborers, POWs, and political opponents in the Ruhr Valley and of the mass graves that gave Allied soldiers a grisly new understanding of their enemy." "Zumbro also recounts the story of Field Marshal Walter Model's final hours. His eventual suicide effectively ended the existence of the Wehrmacht's once-formidable Army Group B after being pursued, methodically encircled, and finally destroyed by U.S. and British forces. Through interviews with surviving members of Model's former staff, Zumbro has uncovered the attitudes of beleaguered officers that official records could never convey." "Other interviews with former soldiers reveal the extent to which Allied bombing contributed to the rapid deterioration of German combat effectiveness and tell of civilians begging soldiers to abandon the war. Zumbro's research reveals the identities of specific characters discussed in previous works but never identified, describes the final hours of German officers executed for the loss of the bridge at Remagen, and offers new insight into Model's acquiescence to Hitler in military affairs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Alan W. Cooper |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783379936 |
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First published to acclaim in 1992, this book deals with the exploits of Bomber Command during their offensive against German Industry in the Ruhr during World War II. The author begins by describing the role of Bomber Command and goes on to define the Ruhr area and its great importance in terms of industrial output to the Germans. The author provides the statistics for bombers dispatched, the number, which actually got to the targets and those, which never made it for one reason or another. Air Battle of the Ruhr is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany a subject that has rarely been dealt with in such depth. This book fills in an important gap in the history of the Royal Air Force.
Author | : Charles Whiting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Ruhr Picket, Battle of the, Germany, 1945 |
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Author | : Leo Kessler |
Publisher | : Chelsea, MI : Scarborough House/Publishers |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812840056 |
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Describes the battle that arose from Eisenhower's abandonment of the race for Berlin and the victory that was accomplished.
Author | : Leo Kessler |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Ruhr Pocket, Battle of, 1945 |
ISBN | : 9780749304799 |
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Author | : Richard Worrall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472846575 |
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This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running. Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook its first concentrated bombing campaign, the Battle of the Ruhr, whose aim was nothing less than the complete destruction of the industry that powered the German war machine. Often overshadowed by the famous 'Dambusters' single-raid attack on the Ruhr dams, the Battle of the Ruhr proved much larger and much more complex. The mighty, industrial Ruhr region contained not only some of the most famous and important arms makers, such as the gunmakers Krupp of Essen, but also many other industries that the German war economy relied on, from steelmakers to synthetic oil plants. Being such a valuable target, the Ruhr was one of the most heavily defended regions in Europe. This book examines how the brutal Ruhr campaign was conceived and fought, and how Bomber Command's relentless pursuit of its objective drew it into raids on targets well beyond the Ruhr, from the nearby city of Cologne to the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. Drawing on a wide-range of primary and secondary sources, this is the story of the first titanic struggle in the skies over Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe.
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Publisher | : s.l. : s.n. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leo Kessler |
Publisher | : Scarborough House |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780812885491 |
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Author | : Charles Whiting |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780850529142 |
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March - April 1945. Victory for the Allies was only a matter of time. Two great armies were racing towards each other crushing German resistance in their path. Berlin was the prize, which the Soviets were in the event to seize. Instead Eisenhower, always more a political, rather than military, figure opted to destroy the German armies in and around the Ruhr. Churchill's warnings were ignored and Mongomery's plans overruled. What drove the decision-making at this vital time? Was it high level strategy or naked personal ambition? Charles Whiting sets out to examine the facts in his own distinctive style and reach a conclusion, no matter how unpalatable.
Author | : Conan Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198208006 |
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In January 1923 French and Belgian forces occupied Germany's Ruhr District and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations. This unilateral attempt to enforce the crumbling Versailles settlement precipitated a wider struggle for long-term control of Western Germany andultimately for the very survival of the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis is the first comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-Germanreconciliation after 1949. It demonstrates how and why the people of the Ruhr waged a grass-roots mass campaign of passive resistance against the invaders, and evaluates the human and political price of their ultimate failure. To this end, the author exploits a broad range of local and regionalsources, many for the first time, to bring together the high politics of the crisis and intimate, often disturbing, accounts of the daily struggle in the mines, towns, and villages of the Ruhr. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of inter-war Germany.