Hitler's Volkssturm
Subtitle: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945 (Modern War Studies)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780700611928
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Land forces & warfare; War & defence operations; Second World War, 1939-1945; History, Military; Germany - History - Third Reich (1933-1945); Military History - World War II; World War, 1939-1945; History - Military / War; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; Military - World War II; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; Military - General; Deutscher Volkssturm; History; Nationalsozialistische Deutsch
First sentence: The German Volkssturm's founding on September 25, 1944, followed a series of disastrous military defeats during the summer that had left Allied armies poised on the Reich's eastern and western borders.