This defeat in the Ardennes would cripple German ability to wage war and seal the end of the Third Reich in May 1945.Instructions included in this volume are: (Germans) Schwimmwagen, SdKfz 234-2 Puma, Panzer IV L/70, Marder III ausf M, ...
Sixty years on, these momentous events of the winter of 1944-1945 are recorded in pictorial form in this informative book which portrays the horror of war under the most desperate conditions.
At army headquarters , a meeting attended by the army commander , Generaloberst Alfred Schlemm and by the II . ... opened by Student , who announced that one of his liaison officers , a Luftwaffe Oberleutnant , had brought good news .
The book contains accounts of men, many of whom were still in their teens, who faced death daily.
The woods might have been planned by a master strategist to hold pockets of resistance. A continuous offensive or defensive line is impossible. Strong points and pockets of resistance are everything. That is why the battle had such a ...
First published in 1992 to rave reviews, Danny Parker's Battle of the Bulge has since become the "standard" history of the battle, praised by historians for its stirring narrative, meticulous research, and its wealth of new information and ...
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...
It was only after the most bitter fighting and massive reinforcement that the rot was stopped. In this book the drama of those worrying weeks is captured in superb photographs.
In this densely illustrated volume, military historian Jean Paul Pallud examines the entire salient with ‘then and now’ photographs.
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.
Describes the events leading to and during the Battle of Ardennes, often called the Battle of the Bulge as well as the "fiercest battle of World War II."
This is a story of panic, fear, and physical misery; a story of how a generation of draftees, National Guardsmen, and a small core of regular officers and NCOs faced those three elements as snow piled around their foxholes and the incessant ...
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