The Rhine crossing : 9th US Army & 17th US Airborne / by Rawson, Andrew

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Rhine River Valley.…”
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Operation Varsity, Rhine Crossing : the British & Canadian airborne assault / by Saunders, Tim, 1956-

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Rhine River Valley.…”
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Operation Plunder : the British & Canadian Operations / by Saunders, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Battleground series:; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE -- Background; The Winter War; The Strategic Situation; Second British Army; CHAPTER 2 -- The German Defenders; Volkssturm; The Hitler Youth; Fallschirmjäger; Defence on the Rhine; CHAPTER THREE -- Planning and Preparation; Ground; Resources; 21st Army Group Plan; Air Operations; Second British Army's Plan; Training; Preparations; CHAPTER 4 -- Operation TURNSCREW 51st Highland Division; Final Preparations and the Bombardment; The Assault Crossing; 154 Brigade; 153 Brigade.…”
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With the SAS : across the Rhine : into the heart of Hitler's Third Reich / by Wellsted, Ian

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The Last Offensive / by MacDonald, Charles B. 1922-1990

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to victory -- Victory in the Ardennes -- Main effort in the Eifel -- The Roer River dams -- The drive on Pruem -- Bitburg and the Vianden Bulge -- Saar-Moselle Triangle -- Operation Grenade -- Ninth Army to the Rhine -- Operation Lumberjack -- A Rhine bridge at Remagen -- The Saar-Palatinate -- The Rhine crossings in the South -- The Rhine Crossings in the North -- At the end of March -- Reducing the Ruhr -- Sweep to the Elbe -- The myth about the redoubt -- Goetterdaemmerung -- Epilogue.…”

Hellcats : the 12th Armored Division in World War II / by Ferguson, John C. 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Colmar and the Race to the Rhine --…”

Remagen Bridge : 9th Armored Division / by Rawson, Andrew

“…Battleground Europe. Crossing the Rhine.…”
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Sabers through the Reich : World War II corps cavalry from Normandy to the Elbe / by Nance, William Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background -- Cavalry in the Bocage -- Race to glory -- The bitter fall -- A desperate winter -- To the Rhine -- Sabers through the Reich -- Conclusions.…”
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Armored victory 1945 : U.S. Army tank combat in the European theater from the Battle of the Bulge to Germany's surrender / by Zaloga, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Crushing the Bulge -- Operation Nordwind -- Operation Grenade: over the Roer -- Over the Rhine -- Into central Germany -- On to Berlin -- The shape of things to come.…”
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Our tortured souls : the 29th Infantry Division in the Rhineland, November-December 1944 / by Balkoski, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Watch on the Rhine -- Three towns in Germany -- Preventing wholesale slaughter -- Paying for a bad guess -- We have a war on again -- The momentous now -- As far away as the moon -- They are doomed men.…”
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Distance from the Belsen heap : Allied forces and the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp / by Celinscak, Mark, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Experience, narrative, and meaning : encountering Bergen-Belsen -- The Rhine, the heath, the wire -- The distance of presence : inside seventy-two hours -- A camp on exhibit : workers, witnesses, visitors descend -- The impossible real : Bergen-Belsen in art and photography -- Padres, patients, and pathologies : medical and spiritual relief -- Conclusion : a past intensity.…”
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With the Red Devils at Arnhem : Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944. by Swiecicki, Marek

Table of Contents: “…More Flying Bombs over LondonCuba and Roger do not answer; We Wait for the Second Army; Death on the Rhine; To Arnhem -- A The attempts to cross the Rhine; B Letter sent to Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks about Major-General Sosabowski by Lieutenant-General Browning; Further reading; eBooks Published by Helion & Company.…”
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Wolverhampton Military Studies : Monty's Functional Doctrine : Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944?45. by Forrester, Charles

Table of Contents: “…4 Significance of Middle-Level Command Responses to the Problems of Fighting and Defeating the German Panzers in Normandy 5 High-level Responses and Dimensions of Operational Practice in late 1944 and before the Rhine Crossing ; 6 Understanding the Interaction of Montgomery, Key Commanders and Circumstances in late 1944 and before the Rhine Crossing ; 7 The Reasons for, and Organisation of, Montgomery's Pamphlet Writing Process of late 1944 ; 8 The Pamphlets' Doctrine and its Practical Expression ; 9 Monty's Functional Doctrine: the Factors that Produced it; and his Framework of War.…”
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General Jacob Devers : World War II's forgotten four star / by Adams, John A., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- The interwar years -- Marshall recognizes Devers -- Chief of armored force -- The debate over doctrine -- Commander, ETO -- Deputy supreme commander, MTO -- The French and a Southern Front -- Dragooned -- Up the Rhone Valley -- An end to champagne -- Into the cold Vosges -- Cross the Rhine? -- Throw down at Vittel and its aftermath -- Nordwind strikes Devers -- The Colmar Pocket finally collapses -- Undertone to Austria -- Postwar.…”
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Finding foxholes : a World War II infantry route, then ... and 48 years later / by Berger, Faye, Albrecht, Russel

Table of Contents: “…Also by Faye Berger; Maps; Foreword; The Travelers; The Trip; Travel Day 1:Across the Pond; Travel Day 2: Petite Café; Travel Day 3: Taking France; Travel Day 4:Grown-Up Towns; Travel Day 5 (Part I): 900 Yards of Flat Land; Travel Day 5 (Part II): Just Stopping By after Forty-Eight Years; Travel Day 6: A Hole on a Hill; Travel Day 7: Two Soldiers; Travel Day 8: Winding Back on the Rhine; Travel Day 9: Solemn Fast Food Fix; Travel Day 10: Winds; Afterword: Stars & Stripes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author.…”
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Battle yet unsung : the fighting men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II / by O'Keeffe, Timothy J.

Table of Contents: “…Breaching the Siegfried Line; 8. The Drive from the Rhine; 9. From Collapse to Liberation; 10. From Atlantic to Pacific?…”
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Hitler's defeat on the Western Front, 1944-1945 : rare photographs from wartime archives / by Seidler, Hans

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prelude to Disaster; Chapter One Defending Northern France; Chapter Two Battles in Holland and Belgium; Chapter Three Defending the Rhine; Chapter Four Last Battles in the West; Appendix One Weapons Composition, 1944; Appendix Two Composition of an Infantry and Panzergrenadier Division; Appendix Three Order of Battle: 6 June 1944; Appendix Four Order of Battle: Holland, September 1944; Appendix Five Order of Battle: Ardennes, 15 December 1944; Appendix Six Order of Battle: Defence on the Western Front, March & April 1945…”
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Patton's pawns : the 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line / by Le Tissier, Tony, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The Battle of Lampaden Ridge; 13. The Race for the Rhine; Epilogue; Appendix A: HQ 94th Infantry Division; Appendix B: 301st Infantry Regiment; Appendix C: 302nd Infantry Regiment.…”
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The Supreme Command / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…The Supreme Commander -- The Coalition Command -- The nature of SHAEF -- The machinery of SHAEF -- Planning before SHAEF -- SHAEF revises plans for the attack -- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944 -- Relations with the occupied countries -- Final preparations for the invasion -- D Day to the breakout -- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine -- The campaign in Southern France -- Relations with the French, June-September 1944 -- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine -- Command reorganization, June-October 1944 -- Fighting in the North -- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944 -- Relations with liberated countries -- Program for Germany -- The winter counteroffensives -- The Battle for the Rhineland -- The Battle for the Ruhr -- The drive to the Elbe -- The drive to the Elbe (continued) -- The German surrender -- The last phase.…”

The Supreme Command / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…The supreme commander -- The coalition command -- The nature of SHAEF -- The machinery of SHAEF -- Planning before SHAEF -- SHAEF revises plans for the attack -- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944 -- Relations with the occupied countries -- Final preparations for the invasion -- D Day to the breakout -- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine -- The campaign in southern France -- Relations with the French, June-September 1944 -- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine -- Command reorganization, June-October 1944 -- Fighting in the north -- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944 -- Relations with liberated countries -- Program for Germany -- The winter counteroffensives -- The battle for the Rhineland -- The battle for the Ruhr -- The drive to the Elbe -- The drive to the Elbe (continued) -- The German surrender -- The last phase.…”