The capture of the Remagen Bridge is better covered in published accounts from the American perspective than the German perspective. Ken Hechler’s account remains the most widely available and was based on many interviews of participants on both sides. MacDonald’s account in the US Army Green Book series is an essential reference for the campaign. The Brune and Weiler book, although little known, provides a great deal of detail on the German forces around Remagen. A key set of accounts was written by high-ranking German officers for the US Army Office of Military History as part of the Foreign Military Studies series in the late 1940s, but no compilations of these have yet been printed. This series is available at several archives and I used the set at the US Military History Institute (MHI) at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Among the manuscript collections at MHI, the papers of Maj. Ben Cothran, 9th Armored Division, are particularly helpful with details of the bridge’s capture. The Roberts autobiography mentioned below includes a chapter on his participation as a young staff officer at Remagen with interesting first-hand detail.
Foreign Military Studies (FMS)
Bayerlein, Fritz, Remagen Bridgehead, LIII Corps, (A-970)
Bayerlein, Fritz, LIII Corps (23–29 Mar 45), (B-409)
Berg, Kurt von, Wehrkreis XII, (B-060)
Bodenstein, Werner, LIII Corps West of Rhine, (B-797)
Botsch, Walter, Bonn Staff-Remagen Bridge, (B-785)
Burdach, Karl, The 5th Panzer (15th) Army Artillery, (B-761)
Hitzfeld, Otto, The 67th Corps 26 January–21 March 1945, (B-101)
Kraft, Gunther, The shooting of my father in consequence of Remagen, (B-777)
Janowski, Hermann, Army Group B Engineer Staff, (B-072)
Janowski, Hermann, Obstacle Construction East of the Rhine, (B-105)
Kesselring, Albert, The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, (A-897)
König, Eugen, The 272nd Volksgrenadier Division (December 1944–March 1945), (B-171)
Loch, Herbert, High Command Eifel, (B-065)
Metz, Richard, The 15th Army Artillery (March–April 1945), (B-547)
Puchler, Karl, The 74th Corps (October 1944–March 1945), (B-118)
Reichhelm, Günther, Army Group B Operations, (A-925)
Stumpf, Horst, Panzer Brigade 106, (B-251)
Wangenheim, Horst von, The 277th Volksgrenadier Division, (B-754)
Wagener, Karl, Army Group B, (A-695)
Wietersheim, Wend von, The Battles of the 11th Pz Div. in the Rhineland, (B-590
Wirtz, Richard, Army Group B Engineers and the Remagen Bridgehead, (B-243)
Zangen, Gustav von, The 15th Army at the Remagen Bridgehead: 23–28 February (B-812); 1–9 March (B-828); 9–12 March 1945 (B-829)
Zangen, Gustav von, The German 15th Army at the US Breakthrough at the Remagen Bridgehead, (B-848)
US Army studies
The Remagen Bridgehead 7–17 March 1945, (Research and Evaluation Division, US Armored School)
Col. E. Paul Semmens, The Hammer of Hell: The Coming of Age of Antiaircraft Artillery in WWII, (Air Defense Artillery School)
Lt. Col. Robert Osborne et. al., The 9th Armored Division in the Exploitation of the Remagen Bridgehead, (US Armored School)
Brune, Lothar, and Weiler, Jakob, Remagen im März 1945, (Friedens-Museum: 1994). The most detailed account of German dispositions in and around Remagen at the time of the bridge’s capture.
Davison, Glen, et. al., Spearhead in the West: The 3rd Armored Division, (Frankfurt: 1945). The classic official history of the division; since reprinted by Battery Press.
Gückelhorn, Wolfgang, Das Ende am Rhein: Kriegsende zwischen Remagen und Andernach, (Helios: 2005). A recent German account containing personal accounts of the fighting around Remagen from both sides.
Hechler, Ken, The Bridge at Remagen, (Morrow: 1953). The classic account of the bridge’s capture; available in many different editions.
Hogan, David, A Command Post at War: First Army HQ 1943–45, (GPO: 2000). A very useful command perspective of the First Army actions.
Kurowski, Franz, Hitler’s Last Bastion: The Final Battles for the Reich 1944–45, (Schiffer: 1998). A short section provides the German perspective on the bridge’s capture.
MacDonald, Charles, The US Army in World War II: The Last Offensive, (GPO: 1972). The classic official US Army history of the final campaigns in Germany.
Ossad, Steven L., and Marsh, Don, Major General Maurice Rose, (Taylor: 2003). A recent biography on the 3rd Armored Division commander with a detailed account of the Paderborn incident where the general was killed.
Pergrin, David, and Hammel, Eric, First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, (Pacifica: 1989). A look at the Remagen fighting from the perspective of the combat engineers responsible for building the tactical bridges.
Rawson, Andrew, Battleground Europe: Remagen Bridge, (Leo Cooper: 2004). A recent account of the bridge capture that nicely complements the older Hechler account.
Reichelt, Walter, Phantom Nine: The 9th Armored (Remagen) Division 1942–45, (Presidial: 1987). A good divisional history including the bridge capture.
Roberts, Cecil, A Soldier from Texas, (Branch-Smith, 1978). A biography of a tank officer from the 9th Armored Division that provides further personal perspectives on the bridge capture.
Tieke, Wilhelm, SS Panzer Brigade Westfalen, (Federowicz: 2003). One of the few detailed accounts of the improvised German unit that fought at Paderborn.