The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble

by Patrick Delaforce

Overview

The so-called 'Battle of the Bulge' was one of the most important battles of World War Two. It was certainly America's largest and most crucial land battle, at one stage involving half a million men. 'The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble' tells the story of the furious fighting and heavy losses and how close Hitler came to being successful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473835122
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	388
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Patrick Delaforce served with 11th Armoured Division during the advance through NW Europe.

After a career in the wine trade he became a professional writer. Among his books in print with Pen & Sword are Churchills Desert Rats in North Africa, Burma, Sicily and Italy, Wellington Le Beau and Montys Marauders.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Winston Churchill: 'The Forward Leap was Over'
Chapter 2: Euphoria Followed by Complacency
Chapter 3: On the Other Side of the Hill - Third Reich
Chapter 4: The Allied Generals at War
Chapter 5: Hitler's Great Counter-Ofensive Plans
Chapter 6: Hitler's Brilliant Deception Plans
Chapter 7: Hitler's DECEPTIONS - Stosser and Greif
Chapter 8: The Air War
Chapter 9: Hitler's Battle Plan
Chapter 10: The Secret War of ULTRA and Enigma
Chapter 11: The Ardennes Battlegrounds - the Ghost Front
Chapter 12: All Hell's Boreken Loose
Chapter 13: The Losheim Gap Battle - Gallant Cavalry
Chapter 14: The Doom and Destruction of the Young Golden Lions
Chapter 15: The Checkerboard Division 'A Hurricane of Iron and Fire'
Chapter 16: The 'Ivy' Division defend 'Little Switzerland'
Chapter 17: Battles for the Twin towns and the Elsenborn Ridge
Chapter 18: Colonel Fuller and the Keystones: Buckets of Blood
Chapter 19: peiper, Hitler's Bodyguard and the Massacres
Chapter 20: The Defence of St Vith
Chapter 21: Montgomery Takes Command of US 1st and 9th Armies
Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer Army
Chapter 23: The Battle for Wiltz
Chapter 24: The Dying Days of Kampfengruppe Peiper
Chapter 25: The Seventh Army has Problems in the South
Chapter 26: The Air War 16-25 December 'The Metallic Starlings'
Chapter 27: All Roads Lead to Bastogne
Chapter 28: Patton Relieves Bastogne?
Chapter 29: German Seventh Army - 'battle of attrition'
Chapter 30: High Noon for Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army
Chapter 31: War in the Air: Christmas Day to New Year's Day
Chapter 32: Hitler's Surprises (1): Operation Bodenplatte
Chapter 33: British XXX Corps 'long-stop' and Counrt-Attack
Chapter 34: Hitler's Surprises (2): 'Operation Nordwind'
Chapter 35: 'Autumn Mist' - January - Retribution
Chapter 36: Gottlerdammerung - The Final Audit
Chapter 37: The Heroes
Appendix A: Order of Battle: The Ardennes Offensive
Appendix B: Military Museums in the Ardennes
Bibliography