- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
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- 1. War, Atrocities, Resistance
- 2. The Coup against Hitler
- 3. From Failing Hands: The Coup in Paris
- 4. Paris, July 20, 1944: The SS Locked Down
- 5. The Resistance’s Last Hope: Rommel against Hitler
- 6. Hitler’s Revenge
- 7. Did a Prussian Save Paris?
- 8. To Destroy the City of Light
- 9. Paris in Revolt
- 10. Paris Liberated, Paris Spared
- 11. Normandy South: The Invasion of Southern France
- 12. Forts and Fortresses: Toulon
- 13. Europe’s Lifeline: Marseille
- 14. Violence Comes Home: Preparing the Defence of the Reich
- 15. To Destroy Germany: Hitler and Scorched Earth
- 16. Fighting to the Last Man: The Allies at the Rhine
- 17. Hitler Rages
- 18. The Siege of Düsseldorf
- 19. Dying So That They May Live: Central Germany
- 20. Nuremberg’s Destruction, Heidelberg’s Salvation:
Southern Germany
- 21. A Citizens’ Revolt: Augsburg
- 22. “We, the women of Freiburg, beg you”:
The French Occupation of Southern Germany
- 23. A House of Cards: The Soviet Assault on the Reich
- 24. Saving Caspar David Friedrich’s City
- 25. Finishing the Job That Bomber Harris Started: Hamburg
- 26. Escaping the Soviet Net:
Walther Wenck and the Flight across the Elbe
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- Conclusion
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- Note on Approach, Sources, and Acknowledgements
- The Defense and Surrender of German Cities in 1945
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
- Photographs
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright