| Hitler's Last Bastion: The Final Battles for the Reich 1944-1945 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kurowski, Franz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0764305484 ISBN-13: 9780764305481 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 940.542 |
| LCCN: 97081429 |
| Series: Schiffer Military History |
| Physical Information: 1.59" H x 6.37" W x 9.31" (2.00 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The final stage of the Second World War, with the enemy across the Reich's borders, saw final desperate battles for numerous "fortified places" and blocking positions. Hitler ordered the defense of these fortified places such as K nigsberg and Breslau, Wesel and Kolberg, Danzig, Posen and many others. In these isolated bastions the war-weary German units offered desperate resistance, offered for good purpose. This stubborn holding-on to the last round saved hundreds of thousands of women and children, made possible the evacuation of hospitals and the transport out of surrounded Wehrmacht female auxiliaries. The fates of German soldiers were realized in bunkers and caves, in tunnels and fields of rubble. In the H rtgenwald as in the Reichswald, during the crossing of the Rhine between Wesel and Emmerich, in the Remagen bridgehead, on the hill at Keppeln, in the Ruhr pocket, as well as in the east of the Reich in the East Prussian pocket, in Pomerania, in Silesia and in the Reich capital. Shocking scenes of apocalyptic battle were played out wherever Hitler's last bastions held out against the onrushing enemy, whether at the frontiers of the Reich or inside Germany itself. |