Paths of Death & Glory: The Last Days of the Third Reich (The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series) [Hardcover]

Charles Whiting (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 2003 | Series: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series

This is an authoritative account of the conclusion to World War II assembled through interviews and battalion journals. It is the final volume of a classic series by Britain's most prolific military writer, all being reprinted in paperback. The author is a World War II combat veteran.On January 4, 1945, General "Blood and Guts" Patton confided gloomily to his diary "We can still lose this war." The Germans were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in the same positions they had first captured three months before. Veteran military historian Charles Whiting has assembled the fighting men's individual stories. From material such as interviews and battalion journals he has built up an authentic picture of the Allied fighting man, so that the reader sees and feels what it was actually like to be there. In this suspense-filled history, Whiting vividly conveys the experiences and responses of the ordinary soldier who knew that for some of his comrades the paths that would lead to glory could also lead to death.

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About the Author

(Location: York) is a prolific writer of military fiction and non-fiction, having sold some 3-1/2 million copies in the UK alone and has been translated into most European languages. Other titles published in the Spellmount Siegfried Lines series - West Wall, The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line; '44: In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes; Bloody Aachen; The Battle of Hurtgen Forest; The Last Assault; Ardennes: The Secret War, Decision at St Vith; Operation Northwind: The Other Battle of the Bulge, Patton's Last Battle and Bounce the Rhine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: The History Press; New edition edition (April 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862272107
• ISBN-13: 978-1862272101
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,758,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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