An End of War: Fatal Final Days to VE Day, 1945
By Ken Tout
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandy had been destroyed, but by Christmas the Allies were still fighting through Holland, whilst the Germans had reorganised and were fighting back. Ken Tout, using his own experiences on the frontline and interviews with many veterans, recounts how the last gasps of the German Army saw some of the fiercest and most fanatical fighting of the whole war. Major offensives include Hitler’s last desperate attempt to reverse the tide of war in the Battle of the Bulge and the Western Allies’ epic struggle to cross the Rhine. Also explored are the lesser known, but no less important, battles for the Hochwald and Reichwald, and the extraordinary journey of the Polish 1st Armoured Division from defeat and exile to final victory. This last year of war is filled with stories from the tragedy of whole groups of men being frozen to death in battle areas to the triumph of logistics, ingenuity and bravery. Soldiers, who had lived for so long under the horrors of war that as they neared the end their desperate desire to survive grew ever stronger, speak of how these last battles took their toll on a wearied army. Fighting continued up to VE Day in May and some units were in action for days longer as confusion reigned about the enemy surrender. Even after the fighting had finished, the war was not over for these men who had to round up and guard German prisoners of war, and watch over thousands of displaced people. As our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan remind us today, war does not necessarily end when a ceasefire is declared.
Read more from Ken Tout
Bloody Battle for Tilly: Normandy 1944 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Shadow of Arnhem Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYeomen of England: Tales of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry 1794-1966 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnd of War: Fatal Final Days to VE Day 1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to An End of War
Related ebooks
Without Tradition: 2 Para, 1941–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders, 1914/1918 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Facing Fearful Odds: My Father's Story of Captivity, Escape & Resistance 1940–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalient Points One: Ypres Sector, 1914–18 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSanctuary Wood & Hooge: Ypres Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wacht Am Rhein: The Planning and Preparation for Operation Christrose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSheldrake: Memories of a World War II Gunner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann Göring’: A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBuilding for Battle: Hitler's D-Day Defences Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rommel's Desert Warriors: 1941-1942 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 508Th Connection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOperation Totalize Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Himmler: Hitler's Henchman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Americans on D-Day & in Normandy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American St. Nick: A TRUE story of Christmas and WWII that's never been forgotten Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nazis' Winter Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's Paratroopers in Normandy: The German II Parachute Corps in the Battle for France, 1944 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With Recce at Arnhem: The Recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division Veteran Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnti-Tank: The Story of a Desert Gunner in the Second World War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In My Father's Footsteps: With the 53rd Welsh Division from Normandy to Hamburg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Aftermath of Dunkirk: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-le-Camp, 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMac, Brandy and Me World War Ii: Memories of a Soldier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorld War 2 In Review No. 68: British ‘Landing Craft Assault’ Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of the Bulge: An Allied Victory and the Road to Liberation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perilous Moon: Occupied France, 1944—The End Game Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler at the Obersalzberg: With Perceptions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for An End of War
0 ratings0 reviews