Peter Caddick-Adams
Auteur de Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Caddick-Adams has been a professional military historian for over twenty years and served for thirty years in the British Army. He was twice deployed on operations as the UK's official historian in Bosnia and Iraq. He specializes in leading visits to battlefields around the world. A frequent afficher plus contributor to television and radio on defense issues, he lives in Oxfordshire, England, with his wife and daughter. afficher moins
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THE WAR ROOM (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 651
- Popularité
- #38,783
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 20
- ISBN
- 36
- Langues
- 2
Two, the man continues his mission to debunk some of the "just so" stories that have come down from the war. These include such matters as the agendas and plans relating to crossing the Rhine into Germany, the trade-offs between the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket and the Western allies trying to grab Berlin from the Soviets, the murky story of Anglo-American and Soviet encounters along the Oder River, and the command stresses in ETO as the endgame finally became apparent.
Third and finally, Caddick-Adams devotes a great deal of time to the Allies coming into direct contact with the Nazi economy of forced labor and genocide, and how that radicalized and supercharged a slightly flagging effort; no one who encountered the death camps needed to have any further explanation of what they were fighting for.
I still think the man's book about D-Day and Normandy is the best portion of the lot, but one could do a lot worse than tackling this trilogy.… (plus d'informations)