Charles Whiting Boeken

Updated edition of Shakespeare?'s Sonnets, with a brand new introduction by Stephen Orgel.

"SS Assault Regiment Wotan was training and recuperating after its grueling struggle in Russia. None of those men straining up the glassy slope under the eyes of their commander, Colonel Horst Geier, guessed that already they had been singled out for a new mission ... German High Command knew that the British would launch an attack on Dieppe, and had realised that there was only one regiment that could be trusted to halt them in time and defend the vital coastal battery: the soldiers of Wotan." -- Back cover

In the grey September of 1944, colonel von Dodenburg's SS battle group Wotan became the Fuhrer's Fire Brigade, the crack unit of the German Wehrmacht, to be thrown into any battle as a last desperate measure to redress the balance. As the Allied armies closed in on Germany's holy city of Aachen, even the most optimistic said that Hitler's war was lost. Only Colonel von Dodenburg's black uniformed troopers, with their dreaded silver death's head badge, were convinced that they could still save the day.

The narrative explores Bernard Montgomery's transformation from a national hero after El Alamein to a pivotal global figure by May 1945. It reveals his strategic decisions during his final campaign, where he shifted his Army's role into a competitive race against the Russians for control of critical ports like Hamburg and Bremen. This victory not only showcased his military prowess but also significantly influenced the geopolitical landscape of post-war Europe, marking a crucial moment with lasting consequences.

By December, 1944, 250,000 German prisoners of war in Britain were being guarded by a small number of over-age reservists. POWs had been very tame for most of the war, but now the German High Command in Berlin began infiltrating agents into the most important camps.First enforcing proper "National Socialist discipline" in the camps, the agents then turned to their real task, planning a mass breakout which would coincide with Hitler's last great offensive in the West, the Battle of the Bulge.Charles Whiting reveals one of the last great secrets of World War II, as he unravels the unknown story of the attempt by German agents to organize a mass escape and a march on an unguarded London.

"The Battle for the Siegfried Line was not only the most important of the 1944-45 campaign against Germany, it was to prove the key battle in the entire war in the west. It raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles, and cost over a quarter of a million British, American, Canadian and French casualties."--Jacket

Records the contribution of the Yorkshire Regiment's to Allied victory in the Second World War. This title gives insight into the reality of the battle front. It describes the story of the campaigns fought by the Yorkshire regiments in various parts of the world during the Second World War.