The #1 internationally best-selling author of D-Day reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in riveting detail to discuss the surprise counteroffensive by German forces, the numerous casualties on both sides and the strategies that enabled an Allied victory. 17 maps. (military history). Simultaneous.

Product Description: SS Colonel Jochen Peiper was one of the most controversial figures of World War II. Himmler's personal adjutant and Hitler's favorite tank commander, Peiper spearheaded the Ardennes Offensive and became the central subject in the famous Malmédy massacre trial...read more

The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge treats the German winter counteroffensive in Belgium and Luxembourg. The volume covers the operations of the U.S. First and Third Armies from the start on December 16, 1944, to January 3, 1945, when successful elimination of the 'bulge' was assured. The Ardennes focuses on the division as the chief tactical and administrative unit. However, in the early hours and first days the battle mandates that the story be told at platoon and company level with cross reference to battalions, regimental combat teams, and armored combat commands. Command and control exercised by the army corps generally appears in the allocation of reserves rather than in tactical direction of the battle. Higher command efforts come into the narrative in a few specific instances, such as the gross failure of Allied intelligence; the geographic division of command between Montgomery and Bradley; the decisions to hold the American linchpins on the Elsenborn ridge, St. Vith, and Bastogne, at the shoulders of the German salient; and the initial large-scale counterattack mounted by the Third Army. The history of German command and troop operations is told in considerable detail. At the close of World War II, German officers were brought together so as to re-create the commands and general staffs of the major units taking part in the Ardennes campaign. As a result of this exercise in collective memory of The Ardennes has an unmatched wealth of precise and parallel information on 'the other side of the hill'. Much attention is also given to the role played by the Allied air forces-particularly the tactical air commands-and to the effect of weather on air-ground cooperation and on German logistics.

Product Description:  On Christmas morning, 1944, there was little reason to celebrate.… As the Battle of the Bulge raged, a small force of American solders—including the famed 101st Airborne division, tank destroyer crews, engineers, and artillerymen—was completely surrounded by Hitler’s armies in the Belgian town of Bastogne...read more

Product Description: On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmedAmerican soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS tank column near the small crossroads town of Malmédy, Belgium. In vivid prose with revealing details, Fatal Crossroads reconstructs the previously untold story of the largest single atrocity committed against American POWs on the Western front in World War II...read more

Product Description: The story of one of the most decisive Allied victories of World War II Clear and concise, this account of the dramatic days at the end of 1944 is supported by a timeline of events and orders of battle. In December 1944 the German military made their final attempt to end World War II by throwing in all their reserves in a desperate effort to shatter the Allied lines...read more

Product Description: “Dark December occupies a distinguished place among war books. Every paragraph is based upon evidence, not flimsy wartime rumors. Technical enough for the professional, accurate enough for the historian (in fact, it is history of the best), it is lucid and understandable for the general reader...read more

Product Description: In the winter of 1944–1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the West...read more

Product Description: The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West and the largest and the most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. Fought during the bitter winter of 1944-45, and resulting in over 100,000 German casualties and over 80,000 American casualties, it turned an apparent defeat into what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called 'an ever-famous American victory'...read more

Product Description: French TextMathieu Longue’s detailed history of the Leibstandarte task force engaged in the Battle of Ardennes gives a comprehensive overview of the unit that was involved in war crimes in the Stavelot sector. Longue supplements his exhaustive account of the group’s actions with 300 rare and original photographs...read more

Product Description: The Battle of the Bulge is a combat and tour-of-duty biography about First Lt. George W. Looney, a forward artillery observer in the 196th U.S. Field Artillery. George Looney never told anyone his story after he came home from the war in 1945...read more