The Allied armies fighting in northern Europe had many rivers to cross, but none more significant than the Rhine, a defensive trench of sorts protecting Germany’s industrial powerhouse, the Ruhr Valley. I first saw that famous and formidable river on a March night in 1945. The leaves of a few trees on its near bank, …
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