Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich

by Stephen G. Fritz

Book Overview

At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units before they could reach the Alps. Opposing this advance was a conglomeration of German forces headed by SS-Gruppenf?hrer Max Simon, a committed National...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813123259
• ISBN13: 9780813123257
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher