Bloody Aachen

Charles Whiting

First Published 1984 - This Edition First Published UK 2000

Part of the Spellmount Siegfried Line Series

Aachen - of all the towns and cities in Germany, none evokes the spirit of history more vividly than the name of Aachen.  Here, in 814 Charlemagne was buried.  Here twenty-eight of the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned.  And here in the autumn of 1944, the US First Army, the Big Red One, was held at bay for two months by the fanatical resistance of the Wehrmacht.  This is the story of how 20,000 citizens refused to move out, hiding and fighting their enemies, as the German defence held.  A full bloodied conflict that is captured by the author, a renowned expert of World War II.