Description: This intriguing study, translated from German, not only examines a significant and often overlooked phase of the war, but offers a valuable account of the conflict from the perspective of the German forces.
Brief description: Joachim Ludewig is an officer in the German Army Reserve. He currently serves as a civil servant in the German Defense Ministry.
Review Quotes:
In Ruckzug, Joachim Ludewig, an official in the German defense ministry, who first published this newly translated study more than twenty years ago, describes the sudden collapse of German resistance in August 1944 and the headlong flight towards the German border... By stopping the story in September 1944, when the new front stabilised along the German and Dutch borders, he is writing a history of German military success and with it the possibility that absolute, unconditional defeat might have been avoided
-- "London Review of Books"