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Blurb: “At 5 a.m. on December 16, 1944, 1,900 pieces of heavy German artillery bombarded the silent, snow-covered Ardennes front;
250,000 Germans and almost 1,000 tanks followed in a smashing assault on the Allied "rest area," which was defended only by exhausted or green United States troops.
HITLER had launched the desperate offensive that almost brought him victory. The Battle of the Bulge had begun.
From the eyewitness reports and military records of those who were there-Americans and Germans, officers and enlisted men, citizens and saboteurs-John Toland has reconstructed this dramatic story of the most crucial battle of World War Il. Here is a day-by-day account of Hitler's audacious attempt to smash the Allies. Here is an hour-by-hour chronicle of courage, daring, hero-ism-of the horror and glory that is war.
"The brunt was taken by men in small units fighting greatly. Their story is told better than it has ever been told before in this book."
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
"If you could read only one book to understand generals and GI's and what their different wars were like, this is the book."
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Maps by Bill Meek