Lorraine 1944: Patton versus Manteuffel

Lorraine 1944: Patton versus Manteuffel

Lorraine 1944: Patton versus Manteuffel

Lorraine 1944: Patton versus Manteuffel

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Overview

In the wake of the defeat in Normandy in the summer of 1944, Hitler planned to stymie the Allied advance by cutting off Patton's Third Army in the Lorraine with a great Panzer offensive. But Patton's aggressive tactics continued to thwart German plans and led to a series of violent armored battles. The battle-hardened Wehrmacht confronted the better-equipped and better-trained US Army. The Germans managed to re-establish a fragile defensive line but could not stop the US Army from establishing bridgeheads over the Moselle along Germany's western frontier. Campaigns 5, 24, 74 and 75 are also available in a single volume special edition as 'Into the Reich'.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472802095
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 02/20/2013
Series: Campaign , #75
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 21 MB
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About the Author

Steven J. Zaloga was born in 1952, received his BA in history from Union College, and his MA from Columbia University. He has published numerous books and articles dealing with modern military technology, especially armoured vehicle development. His main area of interest is military affairs in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Second World War, and he has also written extensively on American armoured forces.

Tony Bryan is a freelance illustrator of many years experience after initially qualifying in Engineering and working for a number of years in Military Research and Development. Tony has a keen interest in military hardware – armour, small arms, aircraft and ships – and has produced many illustrations for partworks, magazines and books, including a number of titles in the New Vanguard series.
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 three 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 history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

Table of Contents

Origins of the Battle/Opposing Commanders/Opposing Armies/Opposing Plans/The Moselle Bridgeheads/Defense or Counter-Attack in Lorraine?/The Panzers Attack/Stalemate/The Battlefield Today/Chronology/Wargaming the Lorraine battles/Select bibliography
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