Comments: softcover, 120 pages, 118 black-and-white photos

ISBN: 978-1-47382-146-0

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Pen & Sword

From the publisher: While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day, and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France. This campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of Europe, is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones’ photographic history, from Operation Dragoon, the amphibious invasion of the French Riviera to the battle at Montélimar, to the forcing of the Belfort gap, the destruction of German resistance in the Colmar pocket, and the entry of Allied forces into southern Germany. American, French and German forces are shown in action, including mechanized and armored units and their equipment.

FSM says: Tucker-Jones’ photo chronicles follows the Allies north from Operation Dragoon on the French Riviera in August 1944 to snowy Strasbourg and the Alsace in January and February 1945 as the Wehrmacht made its last stands before being beaten back across the Rhine and into Germany. Modelers will find special interest in the variety of late-production armored vehicles depicted.