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The Ardennes - The Battle
of the Bulge by Hugh Cole.
During most of the eleven months between D-Day and VE-Day
in Europe, the US Army was carrying on highly successful offensive
operations. As a consequence, the American soldier was buoyed with
success, imbued with the idea that his enemy could not strike him a really
heavy counterblow, and sustained by the conviction that the war was nearly
won. Then, unbelievably, and under the goad of Hitlers fanaticism,
the German Army launched its powerful counteroffensive in the Ardennes in
December 1944 with the design of knifing through the Allied armies and
forcing a negotiated peace. The mettle of the American soldier was
tested in the fires of adversity and the quality of his response earned
for him the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with his forebears of
Valley Forge, Fredericksburg, and the Marne. This is the story of
how the Germans planned and executed their offensive. It is the
story of how the high command, American and British, reacted to defeat the
German plan once the reality of a German offensive was accepted. But
most of all it is the story of the American fighting man and the manner in
which he fought a myriad of small defensive battles until the torrent of
the German attack was slowed and diverted, its force dissipated and
finally spent. It is the story of squads, platoons, companies and
even conglomerate scratch groups that fought with courage, with fortitude,
with sheer obstinacy, often without information or communications or the
knowledge of the whereabouts of friends. In less than a fortnight
the enemy was stopped and the Americans were preparing to resume the
offensive. While Bastogne has become the symbol of this obstinate,
gallant, and successful defence, this work appropriately emphasises the
crucial significance of early American success in containing the attack;
by holding firmly on its northern and southern shoulders and by upsetting
the enemy timetable at St Vith and a dozen lesser known but important and
decisive battlefields.
Order code NMP8741. 684 pages.
Book price £40.50.
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Battle of the Ardennes
1944 (1), St Vith and the Northern Shoulder by Steven J Zaloga
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and most costly
battle fought by the US Army in World War II. The assault on the
Ardennes was Hitler's last gamble on the Western Front, and crippled the
Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. This book, the first of two
volumes on the Ardennes campaign, details the fighting in the northern
sector around St Vith and the Elsenborn Ridge. It was in this sector
that Hitler expected to achieve the breakthrough and it was here that he
concentrated the bulk of his Panzer forces in the form of Sixth Panzer
Army. Failure around St Vith forced the Germans to look south
towards Bastogne.
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Ardennes 1944, Hitler's Last Gamble
in the West by James R. Arnold
'The Battle of the Bulge' was
the last major German offensive in the West. Three armies attacked through
the Ardennes, the weakest point in the American lines - and almost broke
through. James Arnold describes the planning of the attack and the course
of events, including the defence of Bastogne and the heroic delaying
actions fought by GI's supposed to be in a 'quiet' sector of the front.
The author is a freelance writer and researcher living in Virginia.
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The Battle of the
Bulge by John Toland.
In December 1944, the German army had been retreating since its
defeat in Normandy five months earlier. But at 5.00am on December 16th the
German artillery suddenly bombarded the peaceful Ardennes front,
initiating what came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. It was the
greatest pitched battle ever fought by the Americans, and their only major
struggle in the dead of winter. Before it was over, they had suffered over
80,000 casualties.
The story of the Bulge is told here in its entirety, and from the
point of view of individuals on both the German and Allied sides. It is an
astonishing story of mass surrender and massacre occurring side by side
with comic opera and unusual heroism. This was Hitlers last desperate
thrust, his final gamble to win the war.
Illustrated paperback with 413 pages.
Book serial number W27. Price £7.99.
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