Most accounts of the action in the northwest European theater of World War II focus on the battle of the Ardennes -- Germany's final offensive. But the Battle for the Rhineland, and the crosing of the Rhine in March 1945 by American, British, and Canadian troops, accounted for some of the most bitterly fought campaigns of all....Peter Allen pieces together numerous first-hand accounts and archival material in the most in-depth and important study ever published of the closing stages of the war in Europe. -- Taken from the book jacket.