ASIN: B00LA0O9RO
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Pages: 339
After the early success of the invasion of Normandy in 1944, the Allies struggled to
advance from the Seine to the Rhine.
The Nazis resisted fiercely at every opportunity.
Nijmegen, Arnhem, the Huertgen Forest, the battles along the Channel coast and the River Scheldt, at Aachen, across the Ardennes and in the Saar - each battleground presented its own challenges and even after seventy years the controversies remain.
Who was really responsible for the failure at Nijmegen, the destruction of the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem and the failure of Operation Market Garden?
Why was Montgomery threatened with the sack when he had just retrieved Bradley's failure in the Battle of the Bulge?
Was General Eisenhower's command strategy either workable or wise, and did Bradley and Patton undermine it?
How much of a part did the media and politics have to play in these ...
