PATHS OF DEATH AND GLORY: THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH,
Jan.-May 1945. General Eisenhower's allied armies lost over
300,000 men in battle and they were in the same positions they
had first captured three months before. PATHS OF DEATH AND GLORY
- The Last Days of the Third Reich, January - May 1945 by
Charles Whiting. Part of the West Wall Series. On 4 January
1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his
diary, 'We can still lose this war'. The Germans were attacking
in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's
allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a
similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in
the same positions they had first captured three months before.
Would the German will to resist never be broken? Veteran
military historian Charles Whiting has assembled the fighting
men's individual stories. From material such as interviews and
battalion journals he has built up an authentic picture of the
Allied fighting man, so that the rea