Operation Nordwind 1945 Hitler’s last offensive in the West
by Zaloga, Steven J.; Laurier, JimFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-22
Publisher(s): Osprey Publishing
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Summary
OperationNordwindis one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II yet one of the more intriguing. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north,Nordwindwas the last great operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west, and the last time the Wehrmacht was on the offensive in the West. The campaign also highlights the difficulties of inter-Allied cooperation between the Americans and the French. This campaign has been extensively treated in German and French accounts, but is not well covered in English.
Author Biography
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in history from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think-tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. The author lives in Abingdon, Maryland. The author lives in Abingdon, MD.
Table of Contents
| Origins of the Battle | p. 5 |
| Chronology | p. 7 |
| The Strategic Setting | p. 9 |
| The Opposing Commanders | p. 18 |
| German Commanders | |
| American and French Commanders | |
| Opposing Plans | p. 25 |
| German plans | |
| American Plans | |
| The Opposing Armies | p. 30 |
| Wehrmacht | |
| US Army | |
| French Army | |
| The Campaign | p. 44 |
| Operation Nordwind | |
| The Strasbourg Controversy | |
| Shifting the Schwerpunkt | |
| Hatten-Rittershoffen | |
| The Gambsheim Cancer | |
| Operation Cheerful: Strangling the Colmar Pocket | |
| Aftermath | p. 88 |
| The Battlefield Today | p. 90 |
| Further Reading | p. 91 |
| Index | p. 95 |
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