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Hitler's Last Offensive

By: Pen and Sword Military

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Books (Pen and Sword Military)


Product Info

Title
Hitler's Last Offensive
Category
Author
Peter Elstob
Publish Year
2015
Pages
432
Dimensions
6x9x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148193261
Type
Softcover

Description

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 defense 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 judgment by the firebrand General George Patton, the superb German generals and others. Paradoxically, all it ensured was that the Russians would reach Berlin first.