Stand and Die
Richard Overy: Rückzug, 10 October 2013
Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944
by Joachim Ludewig, edited by David Zabecki.
Kentucky, 435 pp., £33.95, September 2012,978 0 8131 4079 7 Show More
by Joachim Ludewig, edited by David Zabecki.
Kentucky, 435 pp., £33.95, September 2012,
“... Allied break-out following the Normandy invasion threatened to break that pattern. In Rückzug, Joachim Ludewig, an official in the German defence ministry, who first published this newly translated study more than twenty years ago, describes the sudden collapse of German resistance in August 1944 and the headlong flight towards the German border. Yet ... ”
