Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation] by Atkinson, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice 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 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 Newsletter Sign-up Contents Copyright