Fire and Steel, Peter CaddickAdams
Fire and Steel, Peter CaddickAdams
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Fire and Steel
The End of World War Two in the West

Author: Peter Caddick-Adams

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Unabridged: 19 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/14/2023

Synopsis

Here is Peter Caddick-Adams's third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World War Two. Fire & Steel covers the war's final 100 days—beginning in late January 1945 and continuing until May 8, 1945, when the German high command surrendered unconditionally to all Allied forces. Caddick-Adams's previous two volumes in the acclaimed series—Sand & Steel, which covers the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, and Snow & Steel, the definitive study of the Battle of the Bulge—have set the stage for this concluding volume.

In these final months of World War Two, all of Germany is ablaze. In the west, the Allied progress was inexorable, with Eisenhower's seven armies taking on Germany's seven armies, town by town, bridge by bridge. With his customary narrative verve and utter mastery of the material, Caddick-Adams does these climactic final months full justice, from the capture of the Ludendorff Railway Bridge at Remagen, to the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the taking of Munich on Hitler's birthday, April 20, and through to VE Day. Fire & Steel ends with the return of prisoners, demobilization of servicemen, and the beginning of the occupation of Germany.

A triumphant concluding volume to one of the most distinguished works of military history of this generation.

About Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams is a lecturer in military history and current defense issues at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is the author of Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell and Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45. He holds the rank of major in the British Territorial Army and has served with US forces in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on September 16, 2022

Fire and Steel is a powerful, provocative and fitting final installment to Dr. Caddick-Adams’ Second World War trilogy. In this final volume, our author lays out that the final 100 days of war on the Western Front was much more that the defeat of an enemy and his will to make war, it was also a fight......more

Goodreads review by Gregory on March 23, 2023

My Uncle (my Dad’s twin) was a U.S. Paratrooper killed in action at the age of twenty in the Spring of 1945. This is a period of the war that is rarely covered in military history so I was glad to see a new history of that period. The author provides a detailed view of the action on the Western fron......more

Goodreads review by Robert on June 10, 2022

A well researched and detailed account of the last 100 days of the Second World War in Western Europe. Too many histories of World War 2 tend to skate over this period which begins at the conclusion of the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945 and concludes with the German Surrender in May. In reality......more

Goodreads review by David on August 19, 2022

I have often said to friends that there are great historians and great writers and occasionally someone who is both and when you find one of those you have a keeper. Peter Caddick-Adams is one of these rare unicorns which he so clearly demonstrates in the last book of his Trilogy on the Western Euro......more

Goodreads review by Shrike58 on September 24, 2023

A worthy conclusion to an excellent trilogy, as first, Caddick-Adams presents a coherent operational portrait of the last 100 days of World War II in Northwest Europe. This book would be worthwhile for that if nothing else. Two, the man continues his mission to debunk some of the "just so" stories th......more

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