Isbn: 9780345020499 - battle of the reichswald (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good (faults). 1st Printing. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Battle Book No. 19. 1/2" tear on outside edge of front cover. Check mark on front cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Printing. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Battle Book No. 19. Owner's name written on last page.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The bottom spine end of the book cover has a smallish chip with a tiny edge tear. The front cover has a lightish vertical crease to the middle of the cover, and the rear cover has two + noticeable vertical scratches. The text pages are clean and bright. "Operation Veritable (also known as the Battle of the Reichswald) was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement that took place between 8 February and 11 March 1945 during the final stages of the Second World War. The operation was conducted by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, primarily consisting of the First Canadian Army under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar and the British XXX Corps under Lieutenant-general Brian Horrocks. Veritable was the northern pincer movement and started with XXX Corps advancing through the Reichswald (German: Imperial Forest) while the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, in amphibious vehicles, cleared German positions in the flooded Rhine plain. The Allied advance proceeded more slowly than expected and at greater cost as the American southern pincer, Operation Grenade, was delayed by the deliberate flooding of the Ruhr River by German forces under Alfred Schlemm, which allowed them to be concentrated against the Commonwealth advance. " (from Wikipedia).…

Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.