Fire and steel : the end of World War Two in the West / Peter Caddick-Adams.

Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter, 1960- author

ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Imprint2022

Descriptionxxxv, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Note:Third book of the author's " ... and Steel" trilogy.

Note:From Normandy to the Reich -- Allied leadership -- The Colmar pocket -- Veritable mud -- The road to Cologne -- The Saar and the Siegfried -- The bridges at Remagen -- Third army -- Montgomery -- Sixth army group -- Tensions with the French -- Aschaffenburg, Würzburg and Schweinfurt -- Patton's April -- First and ninth armies: from the Ruhr to the Elbe -- April: northern flank -- First army: to Leipzig and the Elbe -- Southern flank: Nuremberg and Augsburg -- 'The bloody dog is dead.' -- Eight days of agony and ecstasy -- Aftermath.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-621) and index.

Note:Caddick-Adams recounts the final one hundred days of World War II in Europe, drawing on personal interviews, memoirs, and other sources. He explores the daunting challenges the Allies faced crossing the Rhine along a 300-mile front. He recounts acts of resolve and heroism, of exhausted troops pressing forward, and of first encounters as troops reached the gates of Buchenwald, Belsen, and Dachau.

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