title: Metz 1944: Pattons fortified nemesis (Campaign)
author: Steven J. Zaloga
description: This is another little gem of a book from Osprey, which excels at publishing excellent accounts of World War II battles and personalities. <i>Al Hemingway, WWII History (Early Winter 2013)</i>
zlib_text: METZ 1944
  Patton’s fortified nemesis
  STEVEN J ZALOGA
  ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE NOON
  © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com
  
  CAMPAIGN • 242
  METZ 1944
  Patton’s fortified nemesis
  STEVEN J ZALOGA
  ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE NOON
  Series editor Marcus Cowper
  © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com
  
  CONTENTS
  INTRODUCTION
  4
  CHRONOLOGY
  5
  THE STRATEGIC SETTING
  7
  OPPOSING COMMANDERS
  13
  American commanders • German commanders
  OPPOSING FORCES
  18
  US Army • German Army
  OPPOSING PLANS
  28
  American plans • German plans
  CAMPAIGN
  34
  Operation Thunderbolt: Fort Driant 
  The October pause
  Operation Madison begins: XII Corps 
  Operation Madison begins: XX Corps
  The battle for Metz 
  On to the Saar: XII Corps 
  XX Corps advances beyond Metz
  THE CAMPAIGN IN RETROSPECT
  87
  THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY
  90
  FURTHER READING
  92
  INDEX
  95
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  The Metz campaign by Patton’s Third US Army in the late autumn of 1944
  is often forgotten or dismissed as a setback. Yet the task faced by hi