Onslaught on Hitler's Rhine: Operations Plunder and Varsity March 1945

Onslaught on Hitler’s Rhine: Operations Plunder and Varsity March 1945

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Author: </b> Delaforce, Patrick

239pp., b/w plates, maps, Beginning on the night of 23 March 1945, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey. At 17:00, 1,300 guns of the 21st Army Group unleashed a terrific bombardment of the east bank of the Rhine. The bombardment, continuing for four hours and was the largest undertaken by the Royal Artillery during the War. This was just the first phase of Montgomery’s plan to cross Hitler’s last obstacle to the attacking forces of the Western Allies-the River Rhine

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Author: Delaforce, Patrick
Publisher: Fonthill
Place: London
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: WW2 Military
Year: 2015
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: 239pp., b/w plates, maps, Beginning on the night of 23 March 1945, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey. At 17:00, 1,300 guns of the 21st Army Group unleashed a terrific bombardment of the east bank of the Rhine. The bombardment, continuing for four hours and was the largest undertaken by the Royal Artillery during the War. This was just the first phase of Montgomery’s plan to cross Hitler’s last obstacle to the attacking forces of the Western Allies-the River Rhine

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