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Brereton's plane circled over The Neth erlands as the C-47s disgorged. The first paratroopers landed along the Rhine delta near the sea. Brereton's craft left them be hind, flew on over a huge expanse of flooded lowlands, where the bright red roofs of the white Dutch houses showed above the blue waters. Here the Germans had created a vast last ditch...
Rape of the Rhine Maidens. Every royalty that Eisenhower collected on his last show improved the prospects for his next production-a heroic opera about the breaking of the Siegfried Line and the rape of the Rhine Maidens. The curtain was lifting-Courtney Hodges'troops were on German soil...
...German armies shattered in France, none was in worse plight than the Nineteenth, which had had the job of holding the Mediterranean coast and the great Rhone-Saone highway to Dijon and the Rhine. Hamstrung by Allied air power before it could even get into action, the Nineteenth has never had much of a chance...
...zigzagged to set up the final trap against the Seine, but that and the original Argentan-Falaise pocket were now of lesser importance. The 1944 versions of Sheridan's cavalry crunched over the Seine, ground around Paris. They could now prevent formation of any line short of the Rhine...
Millions of women and older men were being taught the rudiments of guerrilla warfare: handling rifles, planting mines, hurling grenades, taking cover. The German press coined a new slogan: "We will fight before the Rhine, on the Rhine and, if we must, behind the Rhine." German businessmen, visiting Switzerland, said revolt at home was out of the question: Himmler had too firm a grip. Hitler could still command a substantial majority in a free election because the Germans saw no alternative. Home-front morale was higher than the Wehrmacht's. Only frightful chaos and Bolshevism could result...