Rhine Crossing

Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Battle #27

by James W. Stock

Book depicts the crossing of the Rhine River in WWII.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[George Kasnic · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent history of this campaign. Standard for this series. The author treads lightly on the generals involved, and talks about some lower ranking officers. Not much from the troops. I was disappointed in the section on Operation Varsity, the airborne operation across the Rhine. Here we hear about the drop in more detail and from the company grade level, but there are no detailed maps to flesh out the narrative. And in this series that is unusual. Throughout the book are several operational maps, but when we actually get a story there are no tactical or local level maps to give it heft. A middling effort on an oft neglected campaign.