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A valuable and deeply researched study that contributes to our understanding of the Third Reich's final decline. GEOFFREY P. MEGARGEE, AUTHOR OF INSIDE HITLER'S HIGH COMMAND Yelton's painstaking scholarship demolishes a spectrum of myths about the Third Reich's last-stand home defense force. Ultimately, its poor performance reflected the German people's unwillingness to follow the nihilistic demand to choose death over defeat and occupation....An important contribution. DENNIS SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES A fascinating study that provides so me big surprises for anyone who considers the Volkssturm a minor footnote to the Second World War. PERRY BIDDISCOMBE, AUTHOR OF WEREWOLF! THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST GUERRILLA MOVEMENT, 1944-1946

A valuable and deeply researched study that contributes to our understanding of the Third Reich's final decline. GEOFFREY P. MEGARGEE, AUTHOR OF INSIDE HITLER'S HIGH COMMAND Yelton's painstaking scholarship demolishes a spectrum of myths about the Third Reich's last-stand home defense force. Ultimately, its poor performance reflected the German people's unwillingness to follow the nihilistic demand to choose death over defeat and occupation....An important contribution. DENNIS SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES A fascinating study that provides so me big surprises for anyone who considers the Volkssturm a minor footnote to the Second World War. PERRY BIDDISCOMBE, AUTHOR OF WEREWOLF! THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST GUERRILLA MOVEMENT, 1944-1946

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David K. Yelton is professor of history at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.

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