With the SAS : across the Rhine : into the heart of Hitler's Third Reich / by Wellsted, Ian

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Battleship Bismarck : a Survivor's Story. by Baron Von Mullenheim-Rechberg, Burkard

Table of Contents: “…Appendix C British Forces Deployed Against the Bismarck During Exercise RhineAppendix D The Rudder Damage: Were All Possibilities of Repair Exhausted?…”
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Yesterday there was glory : with the 4th Division, A.E.F., in World War I / by Howell, Gerald Andrew, 1889-1948

Table of Contents: “…Army (fini la guerre) -- Advance of 3d American Army (army of occupation) -- Advancing through Luxembourg -- En route to Germany (first U.S. troops on the Rhine) -- Army of occupation at Coblenz au Rhine -- Along the Rhine -- Back to the U.S. via France (demobilization) -- Appendix A. 4th Combat Division A.E.F. …”
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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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G Company's war : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945 / by Egger, Bruce E., 1923-

Table of Contents: “…The Saarlautern Interlude; 7. The Drive to the Rhine; 8. The Race across Germany; Epilogue; Appendix I: The Reckoning; Appendix II: Roll Call; Notes; Index…”
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With our backs to Berlin / by Le Tissier, Tony, 1932-

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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Counterspy : memoirs of a counterintelligence officer in World War II and the Cold War / by Cutler, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…A big surprise -- Welcome to OSS -- Enigma, and double cross -- Counterespionage rookie -- London at war -- American spies in Germany -- Clearing agents before the Rhine crossing -- Victory in Europe -- Life in occupied Germany -- AmericaÆs challenge in Germany -- German evasiveness on Hitler -- Wartorn continent and Berlin -- Counterespionage case officer -- A narrow escape -- Joe House -- Plumbing the Russian mind -- Civilian status -- The Nuremberg trial -- Flying high -- Hooked on espionage.…”
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Tank driver : with the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day / by Hartman, J. Ted, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Tucker -- The Army Beckons -- Basic Training at Camp Roberts -- ASTP at the University of Oregon -- Camp Cooke -- Going Abroad -- England -- Forced March across Northern France -- Entry into Battle -- The Ambush at Noville -- First and Second Drives to the Rhine -- Bloody Easter -- Bayreuth to Grafenwohr -- Release of Concentration Camp Prisoners -- The Fierce Battle for the City of Regen -- The Intensity of the Drive Continues -- Mauthausen, Gusen I, and Gusen II -- Mass Surrender and Death March -- Adjusting to Peacetime -- Waiting to Go Home -- Belgium Remembers: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge -- Belgium Revisited, May 2000: Belgian Memorial Day.…”
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Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…London in the spring of 1944 -- We learn top secrets or we are bigoted -- Waiting in Cornwall -- Crossing the Channel one day late -- The Lieutenant John Spaulding interview -- First days in the field -- First interviews in the field -- The last weeks of June -- Writing history for a change -- The breakout at Saint-Lô -- Restless days at the rear -- Liberated Paris -- Last Days in Normandy -- Watching Paris come to life -- Opinion and politics in liberated Paris -- Return to the field -- The deadly forest -- The North flank of the bulge -- Regaining lost ground -- Battle for the dam -- The close-up to the Rhine -- Chasing the armor across Germany -- Another form of German culture: Buchenwald -- A non-sober history of the meeting with the Russians -- Pilzen on VE-Day.…”
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From war to peace in 1945 Germany : a GI's experience / by Fleming, Malcolm L.

Table of Contents: “…Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River -- Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment -- Continued fighting -- On leave in Paris for training -- Advance through the Hartz Mountains -- Civilians during the war -- Russians in East Germany Part I : linkup at the Elbe River -- Russians in East Germany Part II : Russians occupy the land -- Gardelegen atrocity -- PART II. …”
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The Dying Days of the Third Reich : German Accounts from World War II. by Huber, Christian

Table of Contents: “…6 The Last Panzers at Libau: Horst Messer, Corporal, Eastern Front, Army Group North, from Bad Feilnbach7 War Voyages on the Rhine: Joseph Rass, Senior NCO, Western Front, from Kolbermoor; 8 Forester in Hell: Karl Hubner, Hermann Göring Regiment Driver/Flak-Gunner, Eastern Front, Army Group Centre, From Amberg; 9 The Old Man of Gömörnanas: Memories of an Unknown Soldier, Eastern Front, Army Group South; 10 Cemeteries: Gerd Rube, Second Lieutenant from Rimsting, Final Battle for Berlin.…”
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Sheldrake : memories of a Second World war gunner / by Hughes, Richard, 1913 or 1914-1998

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 17 'Operation Veritable' Reichswald Forest Weeze; Chapter 18 Crossing of the Rhine; Chapter 19 'Operation Eclipse' Final Push Through Germany; Chapter 20 Postscript; Appendix 1 Military Cross and the King's Letter; Appendix 2 Mention in Despatches; Appendix 3 497 Field Battery, Royal Artillery; Appendix 4 25 Pounder Field Gun; Glossary 1 Explanation of Selected Terms; Glossary 2 Divisional Infantry and Artillery; Glossary 3 53rd Welsh Division -- Order of Battle, 1944/1945; Acknowledgment.…”
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Air war market garden. by Bowman, Martin W.

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A combat engineer with Patton's Army : the fight across Europe with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II / by Lembo, Lois, Reed, Leon

Table of Contents: “…The journey to France: July 1-August 6, 1944 -- Normandy: August 6-August 26, 1944 -- Race across France: August 27-September 4, 1944 -- First assault on Moselle: September 5-September 6, 1944 -- Moselle crossing at Dieulouard: September 6-12, 1944 -- Fight for the hills: September 13-September 30, 1944 -- Crossing the Seille (The Silver Star): October 1-November 9, 1944 -- To the German border: November 9-December 19, 1944 -- Battle of the Bulge: December 18-December 31, 1944 -- Closing up the Bulge: January 1-January 31, 1945 -- The Sauer crossing: February 1-February 17, 1945 -- Entry into Germany: February 18-28, 1945 -- Across the Rhine: March 1-March 31, 1945 -- Heart of Germany: April 1-April 20, 1945 -- Nuremburg to the Danube Valley: April 21-May 3, 1945 -- Austria to war's end: May 4-May 9, 1945 -- Peace settles in: May 9-June 10, 1944…”
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Battle diary : from D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE / by Martin, Charles Cromwell, 1918-

Table of Contents: “…The Calcar-Udem Road: Mooshof and Steeg, the Rhineland's Toughest FightingHochwald-Balberger Wald Road; Rest Periods: Another Version; Crossing the Rhine; The Bridge at Rha and Its Buildings: First War Mud; The Village of Sneek: The Last Battle; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendices; A: Letters; B: The Big Two Bugle Newsletter of the Queen's Own; C: Signed Recommendations for DCM and MM Awarded to Charles Cromwell Martin with Letters of Congratulation; D: Honours Awarded to Members of A Company, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada…”
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Battles of a Gunner Officer : Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany. by Jones, John Philip

Table of Contents: “…The Other Side of the HillAnglo-American Discord; 59th AGRA and the Move North and East; Hard Winter Weather, a Thin Allied Line, and a Serious Surprisefrom the Enemy; Chapter 7: The Reichswald, the Rhine and Into Germany; Holding the Northern Edge of the 'Bulge'; The Unstoppable Advance; 'Nell Gwyn's Left Eye'; 'The Führer Has Fallen in Action'; Afterword -- The Territorial Army: Past, Present and (Problematical) Future; 'Men as shall voluntarily enrol themselves for the General defence of the Kingdom'; A Reserve Army for the Twentieth Century; Lessons Learned; Facing an Uncertain Future.…”
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Kinderblock 66 : return to Buchenwald /

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Inside the Texas Revolution : the enigmatic memoir of Herman Ehrenberg / by Ehrenberg, Herman, 1816-1866

Table of Contents: “…-- The Mexican Death-March, and a Texan Triumph, Toasted with Milk -- Der Fang des Rheinpreussen = The Capture of the Rhine-Prussian -- The Return of Colonel Holzinger (and of John Adams) -- Santa Anna = Santa Anna -- Face to Face with El Presidente? …”
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