Conquest of the Reich: From D-Day to VE-Day - A Soldiers' History

by RobinNeillands (Author), TerryBrown (Drawings)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $5.69

  A detailed and authentic history of the downfall of Hitler's armies as told by the men and women who took part in the final battles of the Second World War.There are accounts from Cnadian,British and German soldiers and airman,from concentration camp survivors and civilians on both sides.THE CONQUEST OF THE REICH covers the 11 month period from D Day to VE day,the battles in north west Europe and the tough fighting of the last winter of the war including the historic crossing of the Rhine in March 1945.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  This is the story, from New Year's Day to VE Day, 8 May 1945, of the conquest of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there. It is the follow-up to Robin Neilland's D-Day 1944: Voices from Normandy . The story is told in the words of ordinary people: American infantry, British paratroopers, Canadian gunners, Australian pilots, New Zealand POWs and German civilians. Neillands paints a broad picture, and tells of events from the participants viewpoint: the men who flew on the Dresden Raid or fought the battles in the Hurtgen Forest, The Bulge, the Reichwald, and at the Rhine Crossing, those who made the horrific discoveries of Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald and Dora. He talks to those who survived the concentration camps, and to Allied POWs who lived through the Death Marches from the East.