Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West.(Book review)

From: Parameters | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. By Derek S. Zumbro. University Press of Kansas, 2006. 447 pages. $34.95. Reviewed by Colonel James R. Oman, Chairman, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management, US Army War College.

Author Derek S. Zumbro examines the final months of German Army Group B and graphically portrays the experiences of a multitude of Germans living in the Ruhr region in his recently published Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. The author follows the same methodology of exploring and describing the ...

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