About the Book: Plunder
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed
extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people British,
American and German, in a series of great events in which some distinguished
themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes.
The book takes its title from Montgomerys 'Operation Plunder, the 23 March 1945
crossing of the Rhine, witnessed by Winston Churchill and embracing huge
amphibious and airborne landings. The author describes the American coup in
capturing Remagen bridge and the 'battles of the breakout