Hold the Westwall 2022/e Karin J. Hess Women drawn to the army's

Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam

Poorly trained and equipped

from the beaches of Normandy to Berlin and the Baltic Sea

*Appendix with a useful menu of instructional activities

Hold the Westwall 2022/e Karin J. Hess Women drawn to the army'sHold the Westwall is the dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of Germany's experimental independent armored brigades, and its formation, deployment (including its defense of the Siegfried Line), and ultimate destruction. Relying heavily on primary documents and interviews, it also presents American accounts of what it was like to fight the brigade. It is the first book in English on Germany's failed experiment with independent armored brigades in