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With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse. The ensuing battles on German soil--especially those in the so-called Ruhr Pocket--were as fierce and hard-fought as any in the European theater. Going well beyond previous accounts, Derek Zumbro chronicles this key military campaign from a unique and fresh perspective-that of the defeated German soldiers and civilians caught in the final maelstrom of the war's western front.
Best known for his translation of In Deadly Combat, the bestselling World War II memoir, Zumbro chronicles the relentless assault on the Ruhr Pocket through German eyes, as the Allied juggernaut battered the region's cities, villages, and homes into submission. He tells of children pressed into service by a desperate Nazi regime--and of even more desperate parents trying to save their sons from sacrifice at the eleventh hour. He also tells of unspeakable conditions suffered by foreign laborers, POWs, and political opponents in the Ruhr Valley and of the mass graves that gave Allied soldiers a grisly new understanding of their enemy.
Zumbro also recounts the story of Field Marshal Walter Model's final hours. His eventual suicide effectively ended the existence of the Wehrmacht's once-formidable Army Group B after being pursued, methodically encircled, and finally destroyed by U.S. and British forces. Through interviews with surviving members of Model's former staff, Zumbro has uncovered the attitudes--and harrowing experiences--of beleaguered officers that official records could never convey.
Other interviews with former soldiers reveal the extent to which Allied bombing contributed to the rapid deterioration of German combat effectiveness and tell of civilians begging soldiers to abandon the war. Zumbro's deep research reveals the identities of specific characters discussed in previous works but never identified, describes the final hours of German officers executed for the loss of the bridge at Remagen, and offers new insight into Model's acquiescence to Hitler in military affairs.
By taking us inside the first-hand experiences and memories of Germans from Reichsmarshals to Burgermeisters, Battle for the Ruhr gives a profound and harrowing ground-level view of the enormous destructive power of war.
This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
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Informative...A Great Historic Read.......2007-07-25
[When looking at the destruction done by the few that ran this small Pennsylvania-sized country, I am always bowled over. And, above and beyond the horrendous dismissal and destruction of the Jews, and the Polish, the Russian, and those who had any kind of alternative lifestyle, and on and on, until we come right down to the Native German People Themselves, these few who were in charge Stole and Destroyed Everything that any of the general populace owned, believed in, or held dear. The level of fear that would cause a people Not to Rise Up against their oppressors must have been terrible. Of course, after reaching a certain level of weakness, there would have been NO way they could have stopped the Nazi leadership as badly as I believe a majority would have liked to.]
~the Greek/Middle English descriptive "Holocaust" did have it right..."to destroy by fire"; "to burn"; "destroy completely"; "mass murder"; "genocide"
Zumbro writes this truly great narrative of the Battle for the Ruhr Valley, the final days, of course, of Germany in World War II, from the viewpoint of the natives, which puts the Allies as the invaders of thier land. Certainly, a Most Interesting Viewpoint, and I must say I thought it works very well. I think we must legitimately recognize that the vast majority of German natives were, in most cases, helpless pawns under the thumbs of the Nazi leadership. So, after having been robbed of Everything they had, including their dignity, from their leaders, the Allies rolled in, destroying their last possessions, their homes and housing, in most cases because the German Field Officers were fearfull NOT to defend towns and villages, knowing they and their troops would be executed by the Nazi leaders. In a great many cases, these people did surrender themselves and their towns to the Allies, to much less damage, etc. It is heart-rending to see the level of loss that these unfortunate country-people, for the most part, suffered. Also, it was most interesting to see the workings/thought processes of the collapsing Nazi leadership in Berlin. This was also recently shown vividly to me by the movie "The Downfall" a couple years ago. I feel that Mr. Zumbro has certainly done his homework for this book, and also, he has not glossed over the wrong-doings that the Allies did, either, putting it right out there, as it should be, that we, ourselves, in many cases did wrong and committed crimes against these people that should not have been done.
A Great, Informative Book. I Highly Recommend IT! ~operabruin
Starts with a Bang and Ends With A Dud.......2007-03-05
I served in the Army in the area that this book takes place (Buren, south of Paderborn), long after it took place, and enjoyed learning what happened to the towns and cities nearby. This book locks you in early on and is quite a page turner. My biggest fault is that it falls in the last 75-100 pages with what basically becomes the same story with a new town name. Something like, town prepares...Germans run....Allies roll in....next town....town prepares..... Nonetheless, I would recommend the book to others, as it was recommended to me by another who served in the same area before I did.
The Impression of one Familiar with Wuppertal:.......2007-01-22
The main problem with writing a book like this is that most of the oral sources are now dead. This last September, I attended the Knohl family re-union, in Wuppertal, and there was only one man there who could remember anything about the battle for the Ruhr. He would have turned nine in 1945.
Our Uncle Herbert(Knohl) was in the US Army CIC; and although he resented his tour of duty in the US Army, he talked about almost nothing else for the next fifty-three years. One of the things he mentioned was his shooting of two, high-ranking Nazi officials from Cologne. He told me his commander--a Texas Ranger was duly impressed; so much so, that he sent our uncle to Wuppertal to look at a prison facility there.
While there, Uncle Herb met his father(our grandfather) on the street, and found that his parents had had nothing to eat for some time. He was able to get them food. My grandparents belonged to the Gemarkekirche in Barmen, which was quite notable in its opposition to Hitler. In fact, there was mention of a "death list", and that our grandparents' names were on it.
I realize the author had quite a bit of information to cover, and he had to cover--mainly--the capture of the Ruhr, by the allies--and didn't have space to cover much of the aftermath. However,the author does mention a number of atrocities, by the Nazis, against the slave laborers, Soviet POW's, and those who dissented from the Nazi way of doing things.
The author also mentions thefts, and atrocities commited by our side--which our Uncle Herb mentioned, but have been under-reported by the literature, until recently.
In short, the book covers quite a bit of material; and I would recommend it to anybody interested in the era.
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Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat : West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice
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World War II and its aftermath brought devastating material losses to millions of West Germans. Military action destroyed homes, businesses, and personal possessions; East European governments expelled 15 million ethnic Germans from their ancestral homes; and currency reform virtually wiped out many Germans' hard-earned savings. These "war damaged" individuals, well over one-third of the West German population, vehemently demanded compensation at the expense of those who had not suffered losses, to be financed through capital levies on surviving private property.
Michael Hughes offers the first comprehensive study of West Germany's efforts to redistribute the costs of war and defeat among its citizenry. The debate over a Lastenausgleich (a balancing out of burdens) generated thousands of documents in which West Germans articulated deeply held beliefs about social justice, economic rationality, and political legitimacy. Hughes uses these sources to trace important changes in German society since 1918, illuminating the process by which West Germans, who had rejected liberal democracy in favor of Nazi dictatorship in the 1930s, came to accept the social-market economy and parliamentary democracy of the 1950s.
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The important 10 minutes in time.......2007-01-18
Michno's work is excellent, with the exception of his failure to include the reports of the Crow scouts. The main question that plagued me (and historians) is: Did Custer or any main body approach or cross the LBH? Michno partly answers the question: By focusing on the stories of the four to eight defenders at the river, Michno proves an Army force went to the river and was repulsed. He also provides strong analysis that it was not Custer, nor were there two deaths at the river. The best book on the incident by far.
Good Effort, Contoversial, but Contradictory.......2006-12-23
Author Greg Michno put a valiant effort into reconciling the multitude of Native American testimonies that surround the Little Big Horn battle. I personally wish he would have quoted their exact testimony, THEN provided his interpretation of their statements. It would have saved me time in looking up their actual statements in my collection. Obviously, there is much dispute over what a particular warrior was trying to say and in most cases, Mr. Michno's views are as valid and thoughtful as most. I did find some of his "Discussions" contradictory however. For example, when discussing the "Henryville" archeological finds, Mr. Michno states that these shots could not have been fired at the soldiers on Calhoun Hill. In support, he states that the Native Americans did not shoot it out with the soldiers at close range, preferring instead to snipe from long range. Thus, this position "had to be" occupied later in the battle. He also states in that discussion that the warriors did not close for hand-to-hand combat. This is contradicted by his interpretations that 1)they did charge in this battle,overrunning the soldier positions 2) that in the earlier stages of the battle they primarily used bows and arrows (very short range weapons, especially when firing uphill), 3) in order to reach positions to charge they had to close to very short range, & 4) that tests proved that the effective range of the Henry and Winchester rifles was only about 100 yds, with hits dropping off dramatically at greater ranges.
Overall, however, his book provides food for thought and helps fill a niche that has been too often overlooked.
everybody else is wrong but me!.......2006-11-02
researched and written by an author who makes his point by badmouthing and criticizing all other authors. His points are well taken, however; this has been written by a person who has never witnessed, or experienced the fog of war. Much of his less than honorable mentions of other ideas would have had more bearing if he took that into account. Still, much of it is enjoyable, although hard to follow with his jumping around, discounting one indians theory while using another to make his point.
Lacota Noon.......2006-08-03
This book is excellent for those who are interested in a detailed history of the battle at Little Big Horn - "Custer's Last Stand" from the indian's point of view. The author painstakingly breaks the battle into 10 minute intervals from start to finish based on interviews with the various tribe members. His goal is not to "De-Bunk" all that we have read and studied about the battle but to give a well balanced narrative based on those who did survive it. It is well worth the time and effort of the reader.
A narrative documentation of the famous battle at Little Bighorn .......2006-05-02
Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative Of Custer's Defeat by Gregory F. Michno is a narrative documentation of the famous battle at Little Bighorn -- but told from the perspective of the Lakota's warriors who fought and defeated Custer and the 7th Cavalry. Introducing the readers to a comprehensive and extensively researched study of the event, Lakota Noon educates readers on every given aspect of Little Bighorn's epic battle from beginning to end. For its outstanding research and well authored and illustrated text of invaluable and insightful information about every aspect, feature and timeline of the battle at Little Bighorn, Lakota Noon is very strongly recommended reading, especially for students of American history and Native American history.
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For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged to make the restoration of President Aristide one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. But that fall the U.S. let supporters of Haiti's ruling military junta intimidate America into ordering the USS Harlan County and its cargo of UN peacekeeping troops to scotch plans and return to port. Less than a year later, for the first time in U.S. history, a deposed president of another country prevailed on the United States to use its military might to return him to office.
These extraordinary events provide the backdrop for Plunging into Haiti—Ralph Pezzullo's detailed account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political crisis. Through his father, Lawrence Pezzullo, who served as the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, Ralph Pezzullo gained access to important players on all sides. He tells the story of talented, committed men and women from the United States, France, Argentina, and Haiti who dedicated themselves to creating an outcome that would benefit Haiti and the rest of the world. With the energy of a political thriller, Plunging into Haiti fleshes out the central political struggle with threads of Haitian history and will engage readers with a general interest in Haiti as well as students of foreign policy. Using his unique perspective and access, Ralph Pezzullo covers the aftermath of the Clinton administration's diplomatic maneuvers to show an island still in turmoil.
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Plunging into the Pezzullos.......2007-07-30
The name Pezzullo, for those concerned with Haiti, is infinitely divisive. Ralph Pezzullo is the son of Lawrence Pezzullo, one of the State Department's special diplomats whom the Clinton Administration contracted to force both the Cedras regime and the exiled Aristide administration to settle their dispute and come to some compromise where Aristide would return to power after his ouster in the early 1990s. Lawrence Pezzullo was likened to a devil by advocates of Aristide and far-left-leaning protesters in the United States for forcing Aristide to compromise with the Haitian military which they accused of being mass-killers.
"Plunging into Haiti" is essentially about the operations of the Clinton Administration that eventually led to the 1994 US Intervation and restoration of Aristide. I thoroughly enjoyed Ralph Pezzullo's book because it tells the same old story from the fresh, different point of view of Lawrence Pezzullo. Before reading this book the maddening indecisiveness and awkward behavior of the Clinton Administration made little sense to me. I was surprised how frustrated Pezzullo was with his fellow State Department officials, and by the discord and chaos within the US Administration itself. Perhaps this book should have been named "Plunging into the US State Department."
Needless to say, this book is blatantly one-sided and biased in favor of Lawrence Pezzullo. So: this book is only valuable if you read it with others that tell the story from different points of view. I suggest reading Paul Farmer's "Uses of Haiti" together with this book for a mind-expanding debate. Farmer slams the Clinton Administration for forcing Aristide to compromise with Cedras; while, Pezzullo feels that Aristide as a president in exile had no right to complain about US tactics to restore him to power.
Also, I really disliked how each chapter is interrupted by condensed introductory summaries of the history of Haiti. Ralph Pezzullo intended this book to serve training diplomats--BAD IDEA; because this topic is too complex, too divisive--this book is only one side of the story. This book should NOT be your introduction to Haiti. But it should definately be on your list if you are familiar with Haiti's history and have already considered different points of view.
Fascinating story of the making of foreign policy.......2006-07-09
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Haiti, U.S. foreign policy making, diplomacy and multinational negotiations.
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In 1945 the once mighty Wehrmacht was reduced to a pathetic shadow of its former self as the thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. The war in the West had been lost and its protagonists scattered in prisoner of war camps across Europe. In his line of duty, Major Shulman interrogated many enemy prisoners, including such senior officers as von Rundstedt, 'Sepp' Dietrich and Kurt Student, twenty-six in all, and from them he learnt why it was that such a superbly armed body of fighting men suffered such a calamitous defeat. First published in 1947, this book was the first to reveal the truth of so much that had happened in the war, and how the discipline and ignorance of the German military machine served Hitler well and Germany badly. It is now a classic of military history.
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A book that stands out among good books!.......2006-04-23
As a big military history reader I have to say this book was excellent. I don't recommend very many books but this was great especially for people already familiar with WWII.
It takes you inside the dfeat of the German Army. Very great observations from high ranking German officer mixed with views from the foot soldier.
Gives a great perspective on the German Army and the internal divisions it had.
Interesting, if imperfect, analysis.......2004-08-24
Defeat in the West is a curious classic history of World War II. Shulman, immediately after the war ended, set out to interview German generals to find out why the Allies won. One might conclude that this source of information would be hopelessly biased. Shulman, however, seems to be fairly immune from the German generals' excuses and scapegoating. Instead, Shulman argues that the Germans were defeated because of three problems with their military.
First, Shulman identifies Hitler's disastrous in military affairs. As the war continued, Hitler became progressively involved in military minutia, to the point of issuing tactical orders. I always feel that care must be taken with this argument. Too many authors slip into the mode of "it was all Hitler's fault", which is most certainly incorrect. Hitler by himself did not lose the war for Germany. Shulman occasionally loses sight of this fact, although corrects himself at the end of the book by placing much of the blame on the German field generals and general staff. Further, it can be argued that it was not Hitler per se that was the problem, but rather that tactical orders emanated from a politician, who was hundreds of miles from the front, and who constantly had information that was badly out of date. Anyone occupying such a position would have performed as badly as Hitler. So, I think it is more appropriate to blame a highly inefficient and ineffectual chain of command. Shulman essentially makes this argument, although he frequently writes as if Hitler the man was the source of the problem.
Second, Shulman identifies "discipline" as a factor for Germany's defeat. This is interesting, as militaries typically stress discipline as a factor for victory. However, Shulman uses the term to describe the German army's willingness to follow Hitler all the way to the destruction of their country. This perhaps was a curious hold-over from the traditions of the German general staff, that held that the army should be strictly apolitical; the head of state would make the strategic decisions and it was up to the military to carry out its orders without question. As an institution it was not to interfere or offer opinions in the realm of politics, nor to question military orders. Shulman demonstrates how this played out in the war. German generals were too "disciplined" (too reflexive in their need to obey orders) to ignore stupid commands emanating from Hitler's headquarters. Additionally, resistance to Hitler's plans almost never was offered on political or moral grounds. Any debate about strategy was purely military (e.g. delaying the attack on France not because it would be wrong, but because the army was not ready). Political resistance, most visibly in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, only occurred when the generals realized the war was lost and that some political settlement was needed. Shulman notes that even this logic was basically military and not moral. He does a good job showing that the German generals completely failed in moral terms, at a time when only they could have offered effective political resistance. Shulman holds contempt for the German generals for being morally and professionally spineless. For Shulman, the professional spinelessness ("discipline") was a cause for German defeat: despite disagreeing with Hitler's orders, they obeyed them anyway with disastrous consequences. For example, had Rommel not obeyed Hitler's order to stand fast at El Alamein in the face of Monty's attack, he probably would have been able to extract more of his infantry forces from battle.
Finally, Shulman identifies "ignorance" as the third factor for Germany's defeat. Nazi Germany was built on disinformation. The less people knew about the true world, the more the government was able to dominate. Further, the German military, probably due to Hitler's style of leadership, utilized a very top-down approach to communications. Shulman shows that this meant that commanders on the various fronts had little or no idea about events and situations elsewhere, nor of what sort of reserves or supplies were available. Rommel is a textbook example of this: he knew next to nothing of Barbarossa before it was launched, causing him to wonder why his frequent appeals for reinforcement fell on deaf ears. Further, Rommel waged his war in North Africa with a callous disregard for supply; it was just "someone else's job" and he assumed supplies would arrive. Had he known the true picture, he might have acted differently. Another example of this ignorance is when the German 15th army was cut off during the pursuit across France because it, unknowingly, had its left flank dangling in thin air because the neighboring army had vanished. Hitler's efforts to maintain control over the army by denying it information worked for him. German generals were deprived of the "big picture" and therefore had difficulties when arguing against Hitler on military matters. What benefited Hitler in the short term caused long-term problems for the military, however, and ultimately Shulman points to this as one of the causes of defeat.
What Shulman fails to analyze is why the German army, if it was so badly commanded, was able to fight for so well for so long. The slog up Italy was costly. Allied forces were practically bled white in Normandy. Two badly battered SS armored divisions were able to crush the thrust to capture Arnhem. The Battle of the Bulge showed the Germans were far from spent, even just 5 months before their surrender. Given that Shulman's factors of Hitler, discipline and ignorance were basically present throughout the entire war, Shulman's assessment fails to explain why the German military went from a winner to a loser. Shulman's argument is deterministic: the Germans were destined to fail. I do not think this was the case, and his book can not address this. Defeat in the West is a classic that all should read, not because it is perfectly correct but because it will prompt discussion about why the Germans lost.
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This book covers the years 1945-63 which witnessed the total defeat of the Third Reich, the occupation and evolution of the German Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief "Introduction" and/or "Background" to the subject, valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined, followed by a substantial and authoritative section of "Analysis" focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct "Assessment" of the subject, a generous selection of "Documents" and a detailed bibliography. How did Germany survive World War Two? The impact of the occupation is analyzed, as are the events leading to the division of Germany. In the Federal German Republic (FRG), the nature of Adenauer's success in creating a democracy is analyzed, as is the West German 'economic miracle'. There is also a chapter specifically on social and cultural developments in the FRG. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) is treated equally comprehensively with particular attention being paid to the Socialist Unity Party and how it was able to survive the riots of 17-18 June 1953 and came dominate the GDR. The events leading up to the construction of the Berlin Wall are also carefully covered. In the Conclusion a comparative summary of the two German states is made in the light of key themes. For readers interested in post-war Germany or European history.
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Custer's Stunning Defeat by American Indians at the Little Bighorn (The Wild History of the American West)
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