The West Front -- Goodbye Bastogne -- Rest and Recuperation -- To Hell and Back -- The Armored Infantry-Again -- Attack into Germany -- The Drive to Bitburg and the Kyll River -- The Drive to the Rhine -- Between the Rhine and Moselle -- From the Moselle to the Rhine -- Jumping the Rhine -- Task Force Baum -- The Road to Hammelburg -- The Only Mistake -- Breakout from the Main River Bridgehead -- Ohrdruf -- Beyond the Restraining Line -- Czechoslovakia -- The Occupation.
Summary:
"By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berlin. General George S. Patton's Third Army would carve its way into the German heartland, the Fourth Armored Division once again serving as his vanguard. This companion volume to Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division covers the final months of combat: the drive to Bitburg; the daring exploitation of the bridgeheads on the Moselle, Rhine and Main Rivers; Patton's ill-fated raid to rescue his son-in-law from a prisoner of war camp deep behind enemy lines; the first liberation of a concentration camp on the Western Front; the drive toward Chemnitz; the controversial push into Czechoslovakia; and the little-known encounter with General Andrey Vlasov's turncoat Russian Liberation Army."-- Provided by publisher.
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