CONTENTS

LIST OF MAPS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

FOREWORD

PART ONE — THE CHANNEL PORTS

1: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2: TO THE SEINE

3: ESCAPE OF THE GERMAN FIFTEENTH ARMY

4: THE CINDERELLA ARMY

5: DUNKIRK AND OSTEND

6: LE HAVRE — OPERATION ASTONIA

7: BOULOGNE — OPERATION WELLHIT

8: CALAIS — OPERATION UNDERGO

 

PART TWO — THE SCHELDT

9: THE FORTRESS

10: OUTFLANKING ANTWERP

11: WOENSDRECHT

12: WATER ENOUGH FOR DROWNING — OPERATION SWITCH BACK

13: BRESKENS POCKET — THE BRAAKMAN APPROACH

14: SOUTH BEVELAND — OPERATION VITALITY

15: WALCHEREN ISLAND — OPERATION INFATUATE

16: THE END OF THE AFFAIR

 

PART THREE — THE RHINELAND

17: WINTER ON THE MAAS

18: THE REICHSWALD — OPERATION VERITABLE

19: BEYOND THE FOREST

20: OPERATION BLOCKBUSTER

21: THE HOCHWALD

22: THE WESEL BRIDGEHEAD

 

PART FOUR — THE FINAL SIX WEEKS

23: THE RHINE TO THE NORTH SEA

24: INTO GERMANY

25: 1ST CORPS IN THE NETHERLANDS

26: END OF THE WAR IN EUROPE

 

APPENDICES

GLOSSARY

MILITARY ORGANIZATION AND ORDER OF BATTLE

A NOTE ON CASUALTIES

ENDNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX