The Siegfried Line Campaign (United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations Volume 5)

xxi, 670 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 19 maps, 81 illustrations, 4 appendices, bibliographical notes, glossaries, and index. "...parallels the effort in Lorraine, following the U.S. First and Ninth Armies during the fall of 1944 through similar costly fighting. The narrative takes the readers from first crossings of the German border on 11 September to the enemy's counteroffensive, which ended the campaign abruptly inside Germany along the Roer River on 16 December. Highlighted are piercing the West Wall, the reduction of Aachen, the bitter fighting in the Huertgen Forest, and the operations of the First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands. American participation in opening Antwerp and clearing the Peel Marshes is also included" (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 70-79).