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Author : Peter Elstob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Bastogne: the Road Block written by Peter Elstob and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Elstob ("writer and former international secretary of PEN")
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Bastogne written by Peter Elstob ("writer and former international secretary of PEN") and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ardennes written by Hugh Marshall Cole and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Bastogne written by Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH 22-2-1. U.S. Army in Action Series. Provides an account of the defense of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, based primarily on interviews with the participants. Related products: Small Unit Actions available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00141-1 Combat Support in Korea is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00149-7
Author : S. L. A. Marshall
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781516946709
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Bastogne written by S. L. A. Marshall and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Center of Military History is pleased to present the second volume in the U.S. Army in Action series, a facsimile reprint of Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall's Bastogne: The First Eight Days. Originally published in 1946, this brief study provides a combat history of a critical battle during the Allied liberation of Europe in World War II. Outnumbered and surrounded for five days, a U.S. Army combined arms force of airborne infantry, armor, engineers, tank destroyers, and artillery conducted a successful defense of the Belgian crossroads town of Bastogne in late December 1944. They separated the German combined arms formations and destroyed the pieces, halting the offensive. The outcome of this battle was critical to the successful Allied defense against the German Ardennes offensive. Bastogne offers unique insights, capturing the immediate impressions of the soldiers who fought in this harsh winter engagement. The author penetrates the "fog of war" with a coherent narrative that clearly captures the strategy, tactics, and leadership of the battle. This action strangled the German logistical flow to their forward assault divisions, disrupting their offensive tempo and slowing their advance. What emerges is a vivid case study of how decisive leadership and incidents of individual heroism can contribute to overcoming enemy forces and weather.
Author : Michael Tolhurst
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850527988
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Bastogne written by Michael Tolhurst and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-06-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of "The Fatherland". Then, the shock of a massive Nazi counter-attack through the Ardennes in the depth of winter threw the Allies into confusion. Bastogne was at the very centre of this dramatic and most dangerous setback.
Author : Peter Schrijvers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179022
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Those who Hold Bastogne written by Peter Schrijvers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious American defenders who held back a tenfold larger German force while awaiting the arrival of General George Patton's mighty Third Army. In this dramatic account of the 1944-45 winter of war in Bastogne, historian Peter Schrijvers offers the first full story of the German assault on the strategically located town. From the December stampede of American and Panzer divisions racing to reach Bastogne first, through the bloody eight-day siege from land and air, and through three more weeks of unrelenting fighting even after the siege was broken, events at Bastogne hastened the long-awaited end of WWII. Schrijvers draws on diaries, memoirs, and other fresh sources to illuminate the experiences not only of Bastogne's 3,000 citizens and their American defenders, but also of German soldiers and commanders desperate for victory. The costs of war are here made real, uncovered in the stories of those who perished and those who emerged from battle to find the world forever changed.
Author : S. L. A. Marshall
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892303
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Bastogne - The Story Of The First Eight Days written by S. L. A. Marshall and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This edition benefits from numerous maps of the battlefields that the actions were fought over] “NUTS!” - Among the many military legends that abound from the fighting of the Second World War, the one word reply to a German summons to surrender must rank highly in terms of its resonance, importance and sheer grit. General Mcaulliffe decided that despite the odds and the lack of supplies and ammunition his troops would continue to hold the important communication hub of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. This dramatic, yet authoritative account brings all of the action to the fore as the Battered Bastards of Bastogne wrote their names into legend. "THIS STORY OF BASTOGNE was written from interviews with nearly all the commanders and staff officers and many of the men who participated in the defense of Bastogne during the first phase of that now celebrated operation—the days during which the American forces were surrounded by forces of the enemy... Thus it is essentially the account of how a single strong defensive force was built from separate commands of armor, airborne infantry and tank destroyers—a force convinced that it could not be beaten."-Introduction.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1937624463
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From The Beaches of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it. From June 7, 1944, on the beaches of Normandy to the final battles of Germany, acclaimed historian Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides to write a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the Citizen Soldiers who made up the U.S. Army. Ambrose re-creates the experiences of the individuals who fought the battle, from high command - Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton - on down to the enlisted men. Within the chronological story, there are chapters on medics, nurses, and doctors; on the quartermasters; on the replacements; on what it was like to spend a night on the front lines; on sad sacks, cowards, and criminals; on Christmas 1944; and on weapons of all kinds. In this engrossing history, Ambrose reveals the learning process of a great army - how to cross rivers, how to fight in snow or hedgerows, how to fight in cities, how to coordinate air and ground campaigns, and how citizens become soldiers. Throughout, the perspective is that of the enlisted men and junior officers - and how decisions of the brass affected them.
Author : Leonard Rapport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Rendezvous with Destiny written by Leonard Rapport and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Armored Infantry Battalion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Hugh M. Cole
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894160
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book United States Army in WWII - Europe - the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge written by Dr. Hugh M. Cole and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 14 maps and 96 photos] During most of the eleven months between D-day and V-E day, the U.S. Army was carrying on highly successful offensive operations. As a consequence, the American soldier was buoyed with success, imbued with the idea that his enemy could not strike him a really heavy counterblow...Then, unbelievably, and under the goad of Hitler’s fanaticism, the German Army launched its powerful counteroffensive in the Ardennes in Dec. 1944 with the design of knifing through the Allied armies and forcing a negotiated peace. The mettle of the American soldier was tested in the fires of adversity and the quality of his response earned for him the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with his forebears of Valley Forge, Fredericksburg, and the Marne. This is the story of how the Germans planned and executed their offensive. It is the story of how the high command, American and British, reacted to defeat the German plan once the reality of a German offensive was accepted. But most of all it is the story of the American fighting man and the manner in which he fought a myriad of small defensive battles until the torrent of the German attack was slowed and diverted, its force dissipated and finally spent. It is the story of squads, platoons, companies, and even conglomerate scratch groups that fought with courage, with fortitude, with sheer obstinacy, often without information or communications or the knowledge of the whereabouts of friends... In recreating the Ardennes battle, the author has penetrated "the fog of war" as well as any historian can hope to do. No other volume of this series treats as thoroughly or as well the teamwork of the combined arms-infantry and armor, artillery and air, combat engineer and tank destroyer-or portrays as vividly the starkness of small unit combat. Every thoughtful student of military history, but most especially the student of small unit tactics, should find the reading of Dr. Cole’s work a rewarding experience.
Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Ardennes written by Hugh Marshall Cole and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1965 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book United States Army in World War II.: The European theater of operations written by United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book United States Army in World War II.: The european theater of operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book United States Army in World War II. written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. C. Cavanagh
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473864283
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book A Tour of the Bulge Battlefields written by William C. C. Cavanagh and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating photographic trip through the site of the last great battle of World War II. Most Americans are patriotic, their interest in World War Two having been stimulated by such movies as Saving Private Ryan. Hundreds of thousands are the descendants of men who saw service in the Battle of the Bulge. This battle still holds the record for the highest number of American troops engaged in any single pitched battle in the history of the United States Army. Americans of the postwar generations are taking an interest in what their fathers and grandfathers did during the war. Those whose relatives served in the Ardennes often visit Belgium and Luxembourg in an attempt to learn more about those now legendary days of World War Two. This guidebook serves as a memorial to those who served. It will enable those who didn’t to learn something about the hardship endured by a previous generation in the name of freedom.
