Pages: 528
ISBN: 9780813134550
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2011
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: American Warriors Series
Illustrations: 18 b&w photos, 22 maps, 3 figures, 36 tables
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9780813175997
Pub Date: 03 Aug 2018
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: American Warriors Series
Illustrations: 18 b&w photos, 22 maps, 3 figures, 36 tables
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. Hitler's effort failed for a variety of reasons, but many historians assert that Lieutenant General George S.