The person most closely associated with chronicling the Siegfried Line campaign was Charles MacDonald, a young company commander at the time and later a US Army historian. He was the author not only of the official US Army “Green Book” history of the campaign, but also the author of the classic account of the Hürtgen fighting, as well as the chapter in the US Army special study that covered the fighting of the 28th Division at Schmidt. Another essential account is the more recent book by Robert Rush, which provides an insightful look at one of the regiments of the US 4th Infantry Division in the Hürtgen as well as its German opponents. The German perspective on the campaign can be found in reports prepared by German officers for the US Army Office of Military History as part of the Foreign Military Studies effort, and these can be found at the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Although it does not cover the section of the Westwall covered in this book, the French Army study by Capt De Beaurepaire À l’assaut de la Ligne Siegfried is an exceptional study of the construction of a section of the Westwall in the Palatinate and also covers the tactics used by US and French units of the 6th Army Group to assault it on March 18–25, 1945.
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