Bloody Aachen (Siegfried Line 3)  -  Charles Whiting

KORTE INHOUD

Of all the towns and cities in Germany none evokes the spirit of history more vividly than the name of Aachen. Here in 814 Charlemagne was buried. Here twenty-eight of the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned. And here, in the autumn of 1944, the US First Army, the Big Red One, was held at bay for two months by the fanatical resistance of the Wehrmacht. But this was no ordinary battle, no straightforward two-sided slogging match, for in the middle was a third party. Aachen, the ancient Holy City of the Empire, ...
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2007 Uitgever: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 192 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1862273952 ISBN-13: 9781862273955