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Crumbling Europa by Max Lamirande EPUB
The year is 1946.
The Second World War continues to rage across the globe. The Soviet forces finally broke through the Dnieper-Lovat-Volkhov defensive line and smashed countless Axis units in their wake. As the Germans prepare two mighty counter-offensives, the fate of the war on the Ostfront will play out in the last half of 1946.
On the Italian Front, the Western Allies have also broken thru the Gustav Line in a series of grueling battles during the first half of the year. The commander in chief for the Italian theater, Erich Von Manstein, will have to pull off several more miracles in order to save Italy from surrender.
A dormant front for more than six months after the significant Allied defeats in the area, the Pyrenes are about to heat up again, with the French wanting to cross at all cost and start the liberation of their homeland. The Western Allies are also gathering forces for a landing in Northern France that is hoped to be the Wehrmacht's killing stroke.
Following his stunning victory in Africa, General Erwin Rommel, now dubbed the Desert Fox, launches his offensive toward Tobruk and Benghazi to retake all the lost ground in 1945 and 1946.
And finally, on the technological front, the Third Reich has been able to stop the Allied bombing campaign against its cities and factories with the Komet rocket fighter, the Horton Flying Wing, R4M rockets, and the Wasserfall ground to air missile system. The German war machine will be able to produce all the war material it can without any hindrance.
For their part, the Allies have not been idle in weapon development. The United States of America has created the most powerful bomb in history with the equivalent power of sixteen thousand tons of TNT: The nuclear bomb. As US President Harry Truman ponders on using such a frightening and godlike weapon, the US air force wonders how they will be able to deliver it over Axis Europe, now that it's impervious to bomber strikes.
This is the story of the Second World War.
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