The history of the Battle of the Bulge, fought in Ardennes, France, is captured in a graphic format.
confirm the reconfiguration, Bradley had worked himself into a seething temper. “By God, Ike, I cannot be responsible to the American people if you do this. I resign.” Major General Strong, listening to the phone conversation in ...
In this densely illustrated volume, military historian Jean Paul Pallud examines the entire salient with ‘then and now’ photographs.
In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive which was to become the greatest battle of World War II.
Infantry Soldier describes in harrowing detail the life of the men assigned to infantry rifle platoons during World War II. Few people realize the enormously disproportionate burden the men in these platoons carried: although only 6 percent ...
Robinson watched as they approached in their camouflaged white ski suits. “The way they were walking up on us, pretty casual-like, I guess they thought we was dead,” he recalled. “We was hid pretty well in that pine thicket, ...
—The Bulge Bugle , November 1991 Jesse L. Morrison B Battery , 482nd Antiaircraft Automatic Artillery Weapons Battalion , 9th Armored Division Combat Command R of the 9th Armored Division had been stationed in Trois - Vierges ...
Different from other histories of the Bulge, this book tells the story of this crucial campaign with first-person stories taken from the authors’ interviews of the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted personnel, who faced the ...
What if Hitler had not launched his massive gambit and, instead, the Allies had progressed with the operations plan they had prior to the Bulge? These are some of the intriguing scenarios played out by leading authors.
Notes on one of the most infamous and bloody battles of World War IIfrom the German perspective. As the Allied armies swept towards the Reich in late 1944, the German...
division is defending the line St. VithPoteau inclusive. ... “I agree that the chaps in St. Vith must be helped,” he conceded. ... “After all, gentlemen,” he concluded, “you can't win the big victory without a tidy show.