Race to the Rhine links modern aerial photography with contemporary illustrations to provide a modern interpretation of the battles, replete with maps, diagrams and photos. It is now 70 years since Western Europe was freed from its occupation, and this book provides a graphic view of how it was accomplished. For those interested in visiting the sites, it supplies a guide to the places that best represent the battles today.

Introduction: Breakout. Operation Cobra -- The Falaise Pocket -- Air support -- Naval support -- Logistics -- Bridging -- Mines and boobytraps -- The Advance Across France. Crossing the Seine -- Operation Dragoon -- Liberating Paris -- Patton's advance -- Clearing the French Coast. Boulogne -- Cap Gris Nez -- Calais -- Battery Oldenburg -- V-weapons -- Liberating Belgium. Brigade Piron -- Polish 1st Armoured Division -- Ghent -- Brussels -- US First Army -- Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne -- 82nd Airborne -- 1st Airborne Division -- Polish 1st Independent Para Brigade -- The Oosterbeek Perimeter -- Battle of the Bulge. Sixth Panzerarmee in the north -- Fifth Panzerarmee in the center -- Seventh Armee in the south -- The Allied counterattack -- Reaching the Rhine -- Liberating the Netherlands. Walcheren and the Scheldt -- Operation Aintree -- Blerick -- Operation Blackcock -- Battle for the Rhineland -- The end in the north -- Remembering the Dead.