The Battle for Antwerp and the Beveland Peninsula, September 1944
by
Peter Beale
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
On 4 September 1944, the British 11th Armoured Division entered Antwerp, capturing the docks intact with Belgian assistance. It was eighty-five days, however, before the first Allied cargo ship reached the docks on 28 November. In the meantime, some 80,000 soldiers of the German 15th Army slipped...