CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

LIST OF MAPS

The Siegfried Line Campaign, Sept. 11–Dec. 15, 1944

Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 16–25, 1944

Bastogne, Dec. 21–26, 1944

MAP LEGEND

ALLIED AND AXIS COMMANDS AND ARMIES ENGAGED IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

WORLD WAR II TIMELINE

KEY PLAYERS

A NOTE TO READERS

THE EUROPEAN THEATER: SEPTEMBER 1939–NOVEMBER 1944

PART ONE: HITLER'S PLAN

Staking Everything on One Card: December 11, 1944

The Small Solution

“Not to be altered”

The Supreme Commander: December 12, 1944

“I still have nine days”

The Ardennes: “It has been very quiet up here…”

The Plan Was Fixed

The German’s Final Assembly Area: December 15, 1944

“Nothing to report”

PART TWO: ZERO DAY: DECEMBER 16, 1944

This Haunted Plateau

The North

The Atrocities Begin

“Much happening out there”: December 19, 1944

The South

The Our River: “Hold at all costs”

The Center

Holding St.-Vith

Trapped

“All of us, without exception, were astonished”

The Last German Airborne Operation

Sowing Hysteria Across the Western Front

A Crucial Meeting in Verdun: December 19, 1944

A Line on the Map

PART THREE: WAR IN THE RAW

Bastogne: The Left Flank

“Nuts”

St.-Vith: The Right Flank

The Allies’ Secret Weapon

Tracking the Monster

Status: Germany

Status: Allied Forces

Bastogne: Saturday, December 23, 1944

“Xmas present coming”

Patton: Luxembourg City: December 24, 1944

“Glory has its price”

Insurrection in the North

Insurrection in the South

The Last German Ground Offensive: January 1, 1945

The Internal Fight for Strasbourg

Winston Churchill Arrives

New Worries

Yard by Yard

“I know the war is lost”

EPILOGUE

THE END OF THE WAR

CHARLES DE GAULLE

CHANGING THE U.S. DRAFT LAWS TO SUPPLY REINFORCEMENTS

U.S. WINTER BATTLE CLOTHING

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

TRACKS, TANKS, AND PLANES AT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

NAPALM AND POISON GAS

WINTER TAKES ITS TOLL

"KILROY WAS HERE"

HORSES, MULES, AND DOGS OF WAR

SIGNAL CORPS

WEAPONS USED BY INFANTRY

NUMBERS TELL PART OF THE STORY

BATTLE OF THE BULGE TIMELINE

GLOSSARY

PLACES TO VISIT

FOR MORE INFORMATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

IMAGE CREDITS

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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