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Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944
During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow.

Graham Thomas's timely and graphic account underlines the importance of this aspect of the Allied campaign and offers a fascinating insight into a complex combined-arms operation late in the Second World War. Using operational reports and vivid firsthand eyewitness testimony, he takes the reader alongside 21 Army Group as it cleared the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk, then moved on to attack the Scheldt and the island stronghold of Walcheren. Overcoming entrenched German resistance there was essential to the whole operation, and it is the climax of his absorbing narrative.
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Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944
During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow.

Graham Thomas's timely and graphic account underlines the importance of this aspect of the Allied campaign and offers a fascinating insight into a complex combined-arms operation late in the Second World War. Using operational reports and vivid firsthand eyewitness testimony, he takes the reader alongside 21 Army Group as it cleared the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk, then moved on to attack the Scheldt and the island stronghold of Walcheren. Overcoming entrenched German resistance there was essential to the whole operation, and it is the climax of his absorbing narrative.
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Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

by Graham A Thomas
Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944

by Graham A Thomas

Overview

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has been treated as a sideshow.

Graham Thomas's timely and graphic account underlines the importance of this aspect of the Allied campaign and offers a fascinating insight into a complex combined-arms operation late in the Second World War. Using operational reports and vivid firsthand eyewitness testimony, he takes the reader alongside 21 Army Group as it cleared the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk, then moved on to attack the Scheldt and the island stronghold of Walcheren. Overcoming entrenched German resistance there was essential to the whole operation, and it is the climax of his absorbing narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526781482
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 11/23/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham A. Thomas is a historian and editor of British Army Review, the British Army’s journal of military thought. He is a military historian specializing in aerial warfare, land-based twentieth-century campaigns and British naval and maritime history in the eighteenth century. His most recent publications include The Man with No Face and Other Strange Terrifying Tales, The Buccaneer King: The Story of Captain Henry Morgan, Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions, Pirate Killers, The Royal Navy and the African Pirates and Terror from the Sky: The Battle against the Flying Bombs.

Table of Contents

Author's Note vi

Maps ix

Part 1 First Moves

Chapter 1 Clash of the Titans 3

Chapter 2 The German Perspective 11

Part 2 Operation Switchback

Chapter 3 The Days of Victory, September 1944 29

Chapter 4 The Allies Draw Their Plans 40

Chapter 5 Plan of Attack 50

Chapter 6 Final Preparations 57

Chapter 7 Break-Out 63

Chapter 8 The Battle for the Leopold Canal 72

Chapter 9 Across the Braakman Inlet 80

Chapter 10 The Battle for Woensdrecht 96

Chapter 11 The Assault on South Beveland 104

Part 3 Operation Infatuate

Chapter 12 Battle for the Causeway 119

Chapter 13 Assault on Walcheren - Flushing 131

Chapter 14 Commandos Attack Westkapelle 150

Chapter 15 Support 161

Chapter 16 Domburg and Beyond 166

Chapter 17 Last Days on Walcheren 178

Chapter 18 Legacy 185

Appendix 1 The Air Campaign Against Walcheren 190

Appendix 2 First Canadian Army/84 Group RAF Operation Infatuate Target Schedule 198

Index 210

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