Battle of the Ruhr Pocket (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Battle Book, No. 21)

160 pp. Berlin was the prize, which the Soviets were in the event to seize. Instead Eisenhower, always more a political, rather than military, figure opted to destroy the German armies in and around the Ruhr. Churchill's warnings were ignored and Montgomery's plans overruled. What drove the decision-making at this vital time' Was it high level strategy or naked personal ambition' Charles Whiting sets out to examine the facts in his own distinctive style and reach a conclusion, no matter how unpalatable.