MacDonald Charles B. The Siegfried Line Campaign

Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993. — 706 p.The Road to Germany
Allied Strategy
The Shadow of Logistics
The Germans in the West
The First U.S. Army
Weapons and Equipment
The Terrain and the West Wall
A Pause at the Border
V Corps Hits the West Wall
The Race for the West Wall
Into Germany
Battle of the Schnee Eifel
Bridgehead at Wallendorf
Defense of the Bridgehead
VII Corps Penetrates the Line
German Developments
The Battle of the Stolberg Corridor
The Drive on the Second Band
A Wall About Aachen
Battle of the Monschau Corridor
The Germans Strike Back
The Onset of Position Warfare
The First Fight in the Forest
Action on the North Wing
Defense of the Albert
From the Albert to the Border
Delay in the Assault
Operation Market Garden
The Germans in the Netherlands
Seven Days for Planning
What Did the Germans Know?
The Flight to the Corridor
Invasion from the Sky
"a remarkably beautiful late summer day"
Hell's Highway
Six Bridges and a Ridge
Taking the Objectives
The Red Devils at Arnhem
Decision on the Ground
Developments on D Plus 2 (19 September)
The Fight for the Nijmegen Bridges
First Attempts To Drive on Arnhem
Keeping the Corridor Open
T he Outcome at Arnhem
The Achievements and the Cost
Release of the U.S. Divisions
The Approaches to Antwerp
The Controversy About Antwerp
The Battle of the Schelde
Baptism of Fire
South Beveland and Walcheren
Something Beastly in Antwerp
The Peel Marches
First Army Draws the Assignment
The British Attempt
A Spoiling Attack
A Set Attack on the West Wall
First Army Readjusts the Front
Planning the West Wall Assault
"Those infantrymen have guts!"
Commitment of CCB
Closing the Circle
The 18th Infantry Drives North
The 30th Division Strikes South
Sealing the Gap
Assault on the City
The Assault Begins
Holding the Last Link
The Final Blow
What Aachen Cost
The First Attack on Schmidt
The Neglected Objective
Objective: Schmidt
To the First Clearing
Toward Raffelsbrand and Vossenack
Regiment Wegelein
The Second Attack on Schmidt
Planning the Thrust
Objective: Schmidt
The Germans React
Events Along the Trail
Catastrophe in Vossenack
The Kall Gorge
Climax at Kommerscheidt
Withdrawal Across the Kall
New Missions
The Big Picture in October
Air Support
An Enigma Named Logistics
New Plans to Drive to the Rhine
German Resurgence and Deception
First Army Plans
Ninth Army Plans
Operation QUEEN
The Roer River Dams and the Weather
VII Corps Makes the Main Effort
The State of the LXXXI Corps
Preliminary Bombardment
The Push Northeast From Schevenhuette
Armor in the Stolberg Corridor
The Second Battle of the Donnerberg
Another Victim of the Huertgen Forest
V Corps Joins the Offensive
A Fourth Fight on the Bloody Plateau
The Fight for Huertgen
An Armored Drive on Kleinhau
Broadening the Effort
Bergstein and Castle Hill
The Final Fight to Break Out of the Forest
The Fruits of Deception
A Handful of Old Men
Resuming the Corps Main Effort
Towns, Woods, Hills, and Castles
German Reinforcements
Debacle at Merode
Clearing the Inner Wings of the Armies
The Fight North of the Boundary
The Fight South of the Boundary
The Push to the Inde
Taking the High Ground
The Roer River Offensive
Planning Period
D Day on the Roer Plain
Armor Attracts Armor
Finding the Formula
The Push to Gereonsweiler
The Geilenkirchen Salient
Operation CLIPPER
The Jump-off
An Exercise in Frustration
Ninth Army Final Push to the Roer
"... in effect we are there... "
A Hundred Men of the XIII Corps
A Shift in the Main Effort
Gut Hasenfeld and the Sportplatz
The Approaches to Dueren
On the Plain
In the Forest
To the River
Objective: the Roer River Dams
The Neglected Objective
The Second Battle of the Monschau Corridor
Heartbreak Crossroads
Something in the Air
The VIII Corps in the Ardennes-Eifel
The End of the Campaign