Armageddon : the battle for Germany, 1944-45

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Label

Armageddon : the battle for Germany, 1944-45

Title remainder

the battle for Germany, 1944-45

Statement of responsibility

Max Hastings

Creator

• Hastings, Max

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

This is the story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe. In September 1944, the Allies expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? --From publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/21

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D743

LC item number

.H36 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography