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Article: First to the Rhine: The 6th Army Group in World War II.(Book review)
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- Military Review
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- March 1, 2008
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FIRST TO THE RHINE: The 6th Army Group in World War II, Harry Yeide and Mark Stout, Zenith Press, St. Paul, MN, 2007, 376 pages, $27.95.
Harry Yeide and Mark Stout's First, to the Rhine: The 6th Army Group in World War II is a factual and objective history of one of the lesser known aspects of the War in Europe: the 6th Army Group's campaign from the invasion of Southern France through VE Day. Yeide and Stout seek to redress the short shrift typically given to this important aspect of the war, an oversight that is puzzling given the logistic and strategic importance of Marseilles and the Rhone River valley. At least 40 fully supplied American and French combat ...