A dark and bloody ground the Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River dams, 1944-1945
The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion-"where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection o...
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College Station
Texas A&M University Press
c1995
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| Series: | Texas A & M University military history series
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Table of Contents:
- The VII Corps enters the forest
- Early operations of the 9th Division
- October deadlock
- Origins of the Second Battle of Schmidt
- The 28th Division attack begins
- Disaster at Vossenack
- The November offensive
- The battles in the north
- Stalemate in the center
- The capture of Hürtgen
- The Capture of Grosshau, Kleinhau, and Bergstein
- Operations to 16 December
- Final battles and capture of the dams
- Analysis.