The Rhineland was where Adolf Hitler sowed the seeds for the Second World War when he remilitarized it in 1936, and by late 1944 the Rhine provided the last major obstacle to the advancing Allied armies that were threatening the Fatherland itself.

In this new history of the struggle for the Rhineland, respected military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones describes the race against time as the Germans struggled to hold the west bank in order to protect the Rhine crossings at Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz and Remagen in the face of the inevitable Allied advance.

Rhineland examines the course of this desperate defence from the German perspective, describing the build-up of forces and operational plans before going on to tell the story of the campaign from the point of view of the forces involved, from the ordinary German soldier through to the high command.