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Article: Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West.(Book review)
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. By Derek S. Zumbro. University Press of Kansas, 2006. 447 pages. $34.95. Reviewed by Colonel James R. Oman, Chairman, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management, US Army War College.
Author Derek S. Zumbro examines the final months of German Army Group B and graphically portrays the experiences of a multitude of Germans living in the Ruhr region in his recently published Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. The author follows the same methodology of exploring and describing the events and personal accounts as seen through the eyes of the defeated as he did in his ...