In Final Defense of the Reich: The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Divison Nord

by Stephen M. Rusiecki

In April 1945, the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. This analysis of the battle demonstrates that the Wehrmacht's last gasp on the Western Front was anything but a whimper as some historians charge. Instead, Stephen Rusiecki argues, the Nazis fought to exact every last bit of pain possible. The book follows the histories of both the German and American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591147441
• ISBN13: 9781591147442
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"