Bounce The Rhine

New York, N.Y. Avon Books, 1992. First Avon Books Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xix, [1], 212, [8] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Mark on bottom edge. Acknowledgments, Introduction, Epilogue, Notes and Sources, and Index. Part 1 covers Defeat on the Rhine; Part 2 covers The Most Famous Bridge in the World; Part 3 covers Victory on the Rhine; and Part 4 covers Return to Arnhem. From the foxhole to the command tent, here is an in-depth and personal account of the last great allied assault of World War Two--an unforgettable story of extraordinary courage and military folly, when strategic considerations took second place to the glory-seeking of top commanders. The Remarkable True Account of the Allies' Struggle to Cross the Final Barrier into Hitler's Germany 1944-1945. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler, Klaus Konrad, K.N. Kostov, and Duncan Stirling. In 1967, he began writing nonfiction books for the New York publisher Ian Ballantine. Whiting continued this work even when producing novels. Between 1970 and 1976, he wrote a total of 34 books which he described as "Bang-bang, thrills-and-spills". From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. In September 1944, Field Marshal Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final, killing blow at the exposed heart of Hitler's Reich. Over the next eight months, nearly twenty major attempts would be made to breach the 'Fatherland' - beginning with the disastrous Allied defeat at Arnhem - only to be repulsed by an exhausted but resilient Wehrmacht. Montgomery's words seemed a hollow boast until, in April 1945, the hard-fought goal was finally achieved ... at the staggering cost of thousands of British and American lives. From the foxhole to the command tent, here is an in-depth and personal account of the last great Allied assault of the Second World War - an unforgettable story of extraordinary courage and military folly. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Arnhem, Remagen, Ludendorff Bridge, Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, Rhine, Border, Third Army, Patton

ISBN: 0380715767

[Book #82055]

Price: $22.50

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