CONTENTS

	Forward		vii
	The Authors		viii
	Preface		ix
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PART ONE Strategy and Operations
I.	The Debate Over Southern France		3
II.	Command and Organization		23
III.	Planning for Invasion		35
IV.	German Plans and Organization		53
V.	The Plan of Assault		71
PART TWO The Campaign for Southern France
VI.	Isolating the Target Area		95
VII.	The AVIL Beachhead		108
VIII.	Breakout: 17-19 August		126
IX.	The Battle of Montelimar		144
X.	Pursuit to the North		231-248
XI.	Supporting the Campaign		199
PART THREE Ordeal in the Vosges
XII.	Strategy and Operations		223
XIII.	VI Corps at the Moselle		238
XIV.	Approaching the Gaps: Saverne		252
XV.	The Road to St. Die		341-375
XVI.	Approaching the Gaps: Belfort		297
XVII.	Into the High Vosges		311
XVIII.	The Forests of the Meurthe		323
XIX.	The Gates of the Vosges		334
PART FOUR The November Offensive
XX.	Planning the November Offensive		349
XXI.	Through the Saverfne Gap		365
XXII.	To the Plains of Alsace		387
XXIII.	Through the Belfort Gap		406
XXIV.	Lost Opportunities		433
PART FIVE The Campaign for Alsace
XXV.	A Change in Direction		449
XXVI.	On the Siegfried Line		464
XXVII.	NORTHWIND		492
XXVIII.	The Battle of Alsace		513
XXIX.	The Colmar Pocket		533
XXX.	Riviera to the Rhine: An Evaluation		561
	BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE		583
	BASIC MILITARY MAP SYMBOLS
	INDEX		589

	TABLE
1.	Tonnages Discharged at Continental Ports: June 1944-April 1945	576

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Members of U.S. and British Staff Conferring		10
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American Infantrymen		566

All photographs are from the Department of Defense files except those appearing on pages 57, 58, and 67, which are the courtesy of the Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt.