LEADER 04908nam 22006253u 450 001 9910708379003321 005 20170821160655.0 010 $a1-909940-12-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000519199 035 $a(EBL)1623086 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001112493 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12428777 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112493 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11161987 035 $a(PQKB)11233050 035 $a(OCoLC)1018406550 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000519199 100 $a20140217d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Last Offensive$b[electronic resource] 210 $aGreenock $c232 Celsius$d2013 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cCenter of Military History, United States Army,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (867 p.) 225 0 $aUnited States Army in World War II. The European theater of operations THE LAST OFFENSIVE 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7948-3772-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 490-491) and index. 327 $aForeword; The Author; Preface; Chapter I Prelude to Victory; Allied Strategy; Allied Versus German Strength; Weapons and Equipment; Organization and Command; Terrain and the Front Line; Footnotes; Chapter II Victory in the Ardennes; The First Army's Attack; A Grim Struggle Around Bastogne; The Drive on St. Vith; Northward Across the Su?re; Footnotes; Chapter III Main Effort in the Eifel; General Bradley's Proposal; The Eifel Highlands; The Enemy in the Eifel; A Try for Quick Success; A Shift to the North; An End to the Offensive; Footnotes; Chapter IV The Roer River Dams; Toward Schmidt 327 $aToward the DamFootnotes; Chapter V The Drive on Pruem; Into the West Wall; German Countermeasures; The Final Phase; Footnotes; Chapter VI Bitburg and the Vianden Bulge; Crossing the Sauer; The Vianden Bulge; Expanding the XII Corps Bridgehead; To Bitburg and the Kyll; Footnotes; Chapter VII The Saar-Moselle Triangle; Probing the Orscholz Switch; Expanding the Penetration; Broadening the Effort; Crossing the Saar; Footnotes; Chapter VIII Operation GRENADE; The Terrain and the Enemy; Catch-as-Catch-Can; Objectives and Maneuvers; Challenging the Swollen River; The First Day on the East Bank 327 $aThe VII Corps at DuerenThe First Day's Results; Footnotes; Chapter IX Ninth Army to the Rhine; The Third and Fourth Days; Rundstedt's Appeal; Pursuit; Efforts To Seize a Bridge; The Wesel Pocket; The Beginning of the End; Footnotes; Chapter X Operation LUMBERJACK; Toward Bonn and Remagen; Patton in the Eifel; Footnotes; Chapter XI A Rhine Bridge at Remagen; The Germans at Remagen; The Hope for a Bridge; Advance to the Rhine; The Crisis at the Bridge; Reaction to the Coup; On the German Side; Build-up and Command Problems; The End of the Bridge; Expansion of the Bridgehead; Footnotes 327 $aChapter XII The Saar-PalatinateAmerican Plans; The Defenders; Through the Hunsrueck; Across the Lower Moselle; Plunge to the Nahe and Fall of Koblenz; Seventh Army's Deliberate Attack; Breakthrough; Thrust to the Rhine; Footnotes; Chapter XIII The Rhine Crossings in the South; The VIII Corps in the Rhine Gorge; To the Main River and Frankfurt; The Hammelburg Mission; The Seventh Army Crossing at Worms; The XX Corps in the Rhine-Main Arc; Footnotes; Chapter XIV The Rhine Crossings in the North; The Big Build-up; Interdiction From the Air; The View From the East Bank; ""Two if by sea"" 327 $aOperation FLASHPOINTThe Drive to the Railroads; Operation VARSITY; At the End of D-Day; The Try for a Breakout; How To Bring the Ninth Army's Power To Bear; Footnotes; Chapter XV At the End of March; An Awesome Power; The Logistical Backbone; Decisions at the Top; The Plight of the Germans; A Decision on Berlin; Footnotes; Chapter XVI Reducing the Ruhr; The Breakout Offensive; Collapse of the LXXXIX Corps; A Turn to the North; The Thrust From Winterberg; Breakthrough North of the Ruhr; Making Motions at Breakout; The Ruhr Pocket; ""The predominant color was white.""; Footnotes 327 $aChapter XVII Sweep to the Elbe 330 $a The last offensive of the US army in Europe 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zGermany 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xEnd$zEurope 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aHistory - General$2HILCC 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xEnd 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aHistory - General 700 $aMacDonald$b Charles$01281688 712 02$aCenter of Military History, 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910708379003321 996 $aThe Last Offensive$93335798 997 $aUNINA