Hitler's Last Offensive - Couverture souple

Elstob, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0850529840 ISBN 13 : 9780850529845

Editeur : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2003

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the full story of the Battle of the Ardennes. In the last weeks of 1944 the German armies in the West, after a continuous retreat since the Battle of Normandy five months earlier were regrouping in what they thought was to be the last battle in defence of the Fatherland. But Hitler had other plans - to mount an offensive through the Ardennes that would deal such a blow to the Western Allies that they would be willing to negotiate a separate peace. This is the offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge. Could Hitler's gamble have succeeded? Could he have reached his objective, the port of Antwerp? Peter Elstob unfolds the whole panorama of the 'last offensive' which was one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, garnished with many acts of individual heroism and many errors of judgement by the firebrand General George Patton, the superb German generals and others. Paradoxically, all it ensured was that the Russians would reach Berlin first.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Peter Elstob was born in London and educated in the US. He served in the Royal Tank Regiment from 1940-1946 and is the author of Bastogne: The Road Block and The Battle of the Reichswald as well as his superb novel of tank warfare, Warriors for the Working Day, which has sold over a quarter of a million copies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0850529840
• ISBN 13: 9780850529845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432