Crossing the Rhine

By Lloyd Clark

Subjects: Airborne troops, World War, 1939-1945, Germany, military policy, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945, Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944, Germany, foreign relations, 1933-1945, Campaigns

Description: A British military historian offers an in-depth account of two critical offensives led by Allied troops against the Nazi power base on the Rhine, examining the strategies, military leaders, and campaign of the two airborne assaults, the events leading up to combat, the power struggle among Allied leadership, and the results of the battles on the war's outcome.