Stand and Die
Richard Overy: Rückzug, 10 October 2013
Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944
by Joachim Ludewig, edited by David Zabecki.
Kentucky, 435 pp., £33.95, September 2012,978 0 8131 4079 7 Show More
by Joachim Ludewig, edited by David Zabecki.
Kentucky, 435 pp., £33.95, September 2012,
“... On the German side, the history of the last two years of the Second World War is a history of retreating. Occasionally, the retreats were punctuated by large-scale counter-attacks – Rommel at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia; Operation Autumn Mist in December 1944 – but whether they liked it or not, the German forces generally had to move backwards ... ”
