By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three
quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the
German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some
historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the
role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar
on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution:
Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the
course of history. In this gripping account of German military
campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the
inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a “war of
movement,” inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat. The
Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death
ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at
Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht
in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and
compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the
German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German
view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied
perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and
far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht
than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of
the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last
Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German
army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies
in World War II.
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