title: From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 (Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations: Modern War Studies)
author: Charles J. Dick
description: "These two volumes are of great importance in the understanding of military concepts. They need to be not only read but also studied in detail."&#8212;<i><b>Journal of Military History</i></b>
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  ALSO BY WILL IRWIN
  
  
  _The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the  
  Allied Special Forces, France 1944_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _One powerful full-blooded thrust across the Rhine and into the heart of
  Germany, backed by the whole of the resources of the Allied Armies, would be
  likely to achieve decisive results_.
  
  
  —Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _I think we might be going a bridge too far_.
  
  
  —Lieutenant General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _“Not in vain” may be the pride of those who have survived, the epitaph of
  those who fell_.
  
  
  —Sir Winston S. Churchill, on Operation Market-Garden
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  [_List of Maps_](Irwi_9780345519085_epub_map_r1.htm)
  
  
  [_Prologue_](Irwi_9780345519085_epub_prl_r1.htm)
  
  
  1\. [The England Game](Irwi_9780345519085_epub_c01_r1.htm)
  
  
  2\. [The Man from Washington](Irwi_9780345519085_epub_c02_r1.htm)
  
  
  3\. [Hazardous Duty](Irwi_9780345519085_epub_c03_r1.htm)
  
  
  4\. [H