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Downfall 1945 - The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Campaign Series - World War II - Western Front

MSRP $23.95


Product Info

Title
Downfall 1945 - The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich
Publisher
Category
Author
Steven J. Zaloga
Publish Year
2016
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.25x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147634589
MFG. Part #
OSPCAM293
Type
Softcover
Series
CAM293

Description

As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions, driven on by the explicit no surrender order issued by Hitler.

Yet at the same time, the Allied alliance was already on shaky ground, as German resistance was crushed the Allies began to eye each other nervously across a battletorn Europe, with the politically driven military decisions to have a huge impact on the future of the continent. This book traces the final operations of the war, from the liberation of Denmark, the Allied drive towards the Baltic straits, incursions in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and engagements in Eastern and Western Germany, whilst also analyzing how the Allied strategies in the final days of the war were a hint of the future difficulties that would drive the Cold War.

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