The Second World War (6)

The fifth in a series of titles on World War II, this work explores events in northwest Europe in 1944-45. It covers the major operations, and examines the strategy, tactics and operational arts used by each side, setting the nature and political causes of the opposing armies in context.This book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War. This hard-fought campaign conducted by the Western Allies against the Germans during 1944-45 represented, for the former, the decisive theatre of the entire Second World War. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 to the rapid charge through western and central Germany in the last weeks of the war, American, British, Canadian and French military forces took on and defeated the German military. This victory ensured that the scourge of Nazism was finally expunged from the face of Europe.