Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army’s Final Defeat in the West by Derek S. Zumbro
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Overview: With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse. The ensuing battles on German soil – especially those in the so-called Ruhr Pocket – were as fierce and hard-fought as any in the European theater. Going well beyond previous accounts, Derek S. Zumbro chronicles this key military campaign from a unique and fresh perspective – that of the defeated German soldiers and civilians caught in the final maelstrom of the war’s Western front.
Best known for his translation of In Deadly Combat, the best-selling World War II memoir, Zumbro chronicles the relentless assault on the Ruhr Pocket through German eyes as the Allied juggernaut battered the region’s cities, villages, and homes into submission. He tells of children pressed into service by a desperate Nazi regime – and of even more desperate parents trying to save their sons from sacrifice at the 11th hour. He also tells of unspeakable conditions suffered by foreign laborers, POWs, and political opponents in the Ruhr Valley and of the mass graves that gave Allied soldiers a grisly new understanding of their enemy.
Zumbro also recounts the story of Field Marshal Walter Model’s final hours. His eventual suicide effectively ended the existence of the Wehrmacht’s once-formidable Army Group B after being pursued, methodically encircled, and finally destroyed by US and British forces. Through interviews with surviving members of Model’s former staff, Zumbro has uncovered the attitudes – and harrowing experiences – of beleaguered officers that official records could never convey.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction
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