The Ardennes, 1944-1945

The Ardennes, 1944-1945
Author :
Publisher : Casemate / Vaktel Forlag
Total Pages : 504
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781612003153
ISBN-13 : 161200315X
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Ardennes, 1944-1945 by : Christer Bergström

Download or read book The Ardennes, 1944-1945 written by Christer Bergström and published by Casemate / Vaktel Forlag. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, photo-filled account of the six-week-long Battle of the Bulge, when panzers slipped through the forest and took the Allies by surprise. In December 1944, just as World War II appeared to be winding down, Hitler shocked the world with a powerful German counteroffensive that cracked the center of the American front. The attack came through the Ardennes, the hilly and forested area in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg that the Allies had considered a “quiet” sector. Instead, for the second time in the war, the Germans used it as a stealthy avenue of approach for their panzers. Much of US First Army was overrun, and thousands of prisoners were taken as the Germans forged a fifty-mile “bulge” into the Allied front. But in one small town, Bastogne, American paratroopers, together with remnants of tank units, offered dogged resistance. Meanwhile, the rest of Eisenhower’s “broad front” strategy came to a halt as Patton, from the south, and Hodges, from the north, converged on the enemy incursion. Yet it would take an epic, six-week-long winter battle, the bloodiest in the history of the US Army, before the Germans were finally pushed back. Christer Bergström has interviewed veterans, gone through huge amounts of archive material, and performed on-the-spot research in the area. The result is a large amount of previously unpublished material and new findings, including reevaluations of tank and personnel casualties and the most accurate picture yet of what really transpired from the perspectives of both sides. With nearly four hundred photos, numerous maps, and thirty-two superb color profiles of combat vehicles and aircraft, it provides perhaps the most comprehensive look at the battle yet published.


The Ardennes, 1944-1945 Related Books

The Ardennes, 1944-1945
Language: en
Pages: 504
Authors: Christer Bergström
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-19 - Publisher: Casemate / Vaktel Forlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A comprehensive, photo-filled account of the six-week-long Battle of the Bulge, when panzers slipped through the forest and took the Allies by surprise. In Dece
Hitler's Shadow
Language: en
Pages: 109
Authors: Richard Breitman
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04 - Publisher: DIANE Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This report is based on findings from newly-declassified decades-old Army and CIA records released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998. These recor
Blitzed
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Norman Ohler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-07 - Publisher: HarperCollins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post). The N
Hitler's Last Gamble
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Trevor Nevitt Dupuy
Categories: Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Harper Perennial

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The German counterattack against American and British soldiers approaching the German border from the west came as a complete surprise. But the Americans hung o
Explaining Hitler
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: Ron Rosenbaum
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-09 - Publisher: Harper Collins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An extraordinary expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories.