Title: The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen
Review: Since I have been researching and writing about the 99th Infantry Division, I opened the book to page 366. Here Hastings states that the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine collapsed on March 15 (it fell on March 17), he writes that 28 engineers were killed (my research found 25 killed and 18 missing), Hastings writes the Ludendorff was closed on March 13(actually March 12) and that 5 pontoon bridges were opened across the Rhine. Actually one pontoon bridge was completed 200 yards downstream of the Ludendorff and another 2 miles upstream at Linz, both on March 11. If my research is correct, then Hastings has done some very sloppy fact checking. If there are that many errors on 1/4 of one page, a reader has to wonder how many similar errors are contained in this book. Robert Humphrey Sacramento, CA
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