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Hello, everyone, and welcome to History of the Second World War.

We're here today with another interview, this time of Anthony Tucker Jones, about his new book,

Reinland, Hitler's Last Defense, 1944-45, which was published back in early October, 2025.

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20 as the code on Bloomsbury.com slash US. Anthony, thank you for joining us here today.

Oh, thank you very much for inviting me on.

So we're here to talk about your new book, Reindland. As I always like to ask for books kind of about the later years of the war, sort of where are we at in the war when this book sort of begins?

And what are the status of the Allied and German forces in Western Europe at that moment?

Yeah, sure.

I mean, essentially, the start point for the book really is just after Operation Market

Garden.

So pretty much after the Allies debacle at Arnhem Bridge and the failure to get over the Rhine.

So it's sort of late 44 and then takes us up to the end of the war.

And the important thing I kind of think with the starting after Arnhem is the Allies kind of fell

after they'd broken

out of the Normandy Bridgehead and obviously raced across northwest Europe that the German armed

forces were spent that they wouldn't put up much resistance and kind of underestimated them.

But the key thing with the Allied defeat at Arnhem is that Eisenhower, obviously, the Allied Supreme

Commander, took this rather fateful decision that he was going to wear down the Germans on the

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