The Battle for the German Frontier A Traveller's Guide to

A new kind of guidebook. Each title in the series gives comprehensive information -- Major battles and battlefields -- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues -- How to get there; what to see -- Contemporary eyewitness accounts -- Maps and then-and-now photographs The Traveller's Guides help us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words, we learn the feelings of those young men and women of many nationalities who fought and died. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts woven into the fabric of each title, give the series an immediacy and vividness that marks a new departure in guidebooks. The fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the war took place during the period of September 1944 to January 1945. This book follows the course of the Allied advance first to the Siegfried Line and then to the Rhine.

Charles Whiting, a premier historian of World War II, served with a reconnaissance outfit in the war. He is the author of several bestselling books, including ""Patton, The Last Assault ""and ""Death on a Distant Frontier. ""He currently lives in York, England.