D-Day to VE-Day - From Paris to the Rhine
The celebrations in newly freed France contrasts starkly with the grim events of autumn and winter 1944-45, as the German Reich convulses in its final death throws. The invasion forces can now be counted in their millions, closing in from Russia in the east,
Italy and France in the south and from Belgium and Holland in the west.
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- The British advance through Belgium
- US 3rd Army's advance to the Moselle
- The miraculous PLUTO fuel line
- US 1st Army's assault on Aachen
- The Anvil landings in the South of France
- Airborne assaults at Graves, Nijmegen and Arnhem
- Churchill in Paris and De Gaulle in Moscow
- The Russians crossing into Poland
- The hideous first discovery of the concentration camps
- The Warsaw uprising
- War in Italy and the Balkans