Britain's Forgotten Battle : The Reichswald Forest Campaign, 1945-9781398114913

Britain's Forgotten Battle : The Reichswald Forest Campaign, 1945 by Bridge, Adrian and Dawn L.

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Author: Bridge, Adrian and Dawn L.

Germany

Published on 15 January 2025 by Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages, 16 Plates, colour
243 x 164 x 31 | 622g

On 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole of the Second World War in Europe. The Reichswald (German Imperial Forest) on the Rhineland borders of the Netherlands and Germany became the location of an epic struggle that eventually sucked in over 200,000 British and Canadian service personnel.

The campaign, sandwiched between better-known clashes such as 1944's Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine in 1945, was brutal. The Allies suffered nearly 16,000 casualties, the Germans an estimated 44,000. Drawing on a wealth of sources from British, Canadian and European museums and archives, the authors provide a new and timely account “ on the 80th anniversary “ of this epic British and Canadian struggle against the Wehrmacht, fought out on the north-eastern borders of Germany during the dying days of the war in Europe.