Hardcover with green binding, US Army crest on the front cover, no dust wrapper as issued. Part of the U. S. Army in World War Two series known as the 'Green Books'. The final volume in the U. S. Army's series of operational histories of combat forces during the Second World War, Riviera to the Rhine examines General Jacob L. Devers' 6 th Army Group, comprised of the U. S. Seventh Army and the First French Army, which landed on the Mediterranean Coast near Marseilles in August 1944 and served in Southern France before joining the Army Groups under Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and General Omar Bradley in the final assault on Germany. The authors paid particular attention to matters of joint, combined and special operations, and the significance of logistics, intelligence and personnel policies, as well as deception, deep battle penetrations, river crossings, combat in built-up areas and tactical innovations at the combined arms level.