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The two world wars of the 20th century could not have ended under more dissimilar circumstances. In 1918, Germany's will to fight collapsed while its armies still stood everywhere on foreign soil. Bringing the army home after the defeat, in fact, proved to be a huge task for the new German Republic. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi minions rose to power partly on the idea that the army had not really been defeated, but had been a victim of a "stab in the back" by Socialists, Jews and defeatists of every description. Next time, he vowed, it would be different � Germany would fight on to the bitter end, until "one minute past midnight," if need be.
Hitler did not keep all of his promises to the German people, but he did keep that one. In 1945 the German military fought until there was literally no country left to defend. The Third Reich died kicking and screaming, finally crashing down in an orgy of pulverized, burning cities and a river of blood � civilian and military, German and non-German. Military history knows no year quite like 1945, and if we are all lucky, we will never see another.
That horrible year is the subject of Max Hastings' new book. There is no denying that Armageddon moves over some very old ground. The post-Normandy operational account will be utterly familiar to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the battles under discussion. Bernard Montgomery at Arnhem, Courtney Hodges at Aachen, George Patton at Metz, the debate within Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters about who should receive the limited supplies of gasoline, "single thrust" vs. "broad front" strategy, the strains within the alliance as U.S. power waxed and British power waned, the Bulge � it's all here, and very little of it adds to our knowledge. In fact, Hastings' argument that the fuel allocated to Montgomery for Operation Market-Garden should have gone to the First Army � but only if it had been commanded by Patton instead of Hodges � goes a qualifier too far, crossing the boundary from legitimate operational analysis into the realm of alternative history. Russell Weigley's Eisenhower's Lieutenants (1981) went over all this a long time ago, and it remains the book of choice for those interested in a campaign history. Nor does Hastings bring anything particularly new to the table with regard to the war in the East. There is a huge body of operational literature on the Red Army's triumphant advance from Minsk to Berlin, with David Glantz and Jonathan House's When Titans Clashed still leading the pack. Eastern Front aficionados should not expect to find anything startling here.
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