Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's New Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945 - Hardcover
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. The furthest west the offensive reached was the village of Foy-Nôtre-Dame, south east of Dinant, being stopped by the British 21st Army Group on 24 December 1944. The German offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor. Once that was accomplished, the German dictator Adolf Hitler believed he could fully concentrate on the Soviets on the Eastern Front.
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Danny S. Parker is a former research consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Battle of the Bulge. He is the author of To Win the Winter Sky: The Air Way Over the Ardennes, and editor of The Battle of the Bulge: The German View and Hitler's Ardennes Offensive. He lives in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
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"A valuable guide to the history of Hitler's last offensive in the West." -- John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle and Six Armies in Normandy
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- PublisherCombined Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1853671134
- ISBN 13 9781853671135
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Don Stivers (Front Jacket Illustration) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. 316, [4] pages. Oversized book, measuring 12-1/4 inches by 9-1/4 inches. Endpaper maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Abbreviation of Ranks, Preface, and Introduction. Topics covered include The Setting; The First Day: "We March!'; Progress of the Battle; and Looking Back; Also includes Appendices containing Recommended Reading, Simulation Games, Tours of the Ardennes, Table of Equivalent Ranks, Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations, and an Index, as well as over 250 illustrations, the result of many years of research. Danny S. Parker is a game designer and author of World War II books. From the late 1980s, he worked as a researcher on the Ardennes Campaign for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. He has a master's degree from the University of Montana. The book includes rare photographs from American, British, and German sources, as well as stirring commentary which details the entire campaign. The book breaks new ground on one of the greatest military campaigns of history using previously unavailable sources. Here are just a few facets of the Battle of the Bulge included for the first time: A secret communiqué delivered by General Strong to General Eisenhower a few days before the German offensive warned of the possibility of a German attack in the Ardennes; The German operation began with only enough fuel to carry the panzers less than half the distance to Antwerp; The Allied High Command worried that the Ardennes Offensive might be designed to buy time for development of German secret weapons; The Germans did not know U.S. fuel dumps were located. On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his last desperate offensive of World War II, a final great gamble designed to smash his American and British attackers. Danny Parker's ground-breaking Battle of the Bulge was a Military Book Club Main selection. This 320 page book features 275 rare photographs, 18 new maps, and a specially painted cover by Don Stivers, as well as special sections on why the Germans lost and why the Allies won. Critical acclaim for Battle of the Bulge has included:"Danny Parker has written a valuable guide to the history of Hitler's last offensive in the West, which contains particularly useful perspectives on the nature of German operations. Students of the battle will find the divisional maps and orders of battle an informative source of information.". Seller Inventory # 79722
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