Nuts! the Battle of the Bulge: The Story and Photographs - Hardcover

Goldstein, Donald M.; Dillon, Katherine V.; Wenger, J. Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028810694 ISBN 13: 9780028810690

Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS, 1994

Synopsis

An illustrated history, published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, offers hundreds of Allied and German photographs and an authoritative overview of a turning point in World War II.

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From the Back Cover

The Battle of the Bulge - when Hitler sent his troops crashing through the Ardennes to split the Allied forces - was one of the most critical engagements of World War II. This is the illustrated history of the bitter struggle in which the German demand to surrender Bastogne was met with Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe's emphatic refusal, "Nuts!" Such stalwart resistance ultimately brought the German offensive to a standstill. Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the great battle that thwarted Hitler's final gamble in western Europe. Arranged in an accessible documentary-style format, the extensive collection of photographs and authoritative text make this book a unique and compelling work.

Reviews

Hitler and his general staff were convinced that if the Allies on the Continent were struck a shattering blow, their unity would collapse. In mid-December 1944, they planned and executed a sudden but unsuccessful counterattack westward through the Forest of Ardennes that on combat maps produced a change in the battle line forever known as the Bulge. Following the format and scope of their earlier works The Way It Was (LJ 8/91) and D-Day Normandy (LJ 4/1/94), the authors have reconstructed the sense of those uncertain days in the frozen Belgian woods. Hundreds of photos taken from American and German sources capture the world of combat from the perspective of foot soldiers and tank crewmen in all its powerful, gritty, and often gruesome reality. A valuable addition to any collection on this subject.
Mel D. Lane, Sacramento, Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Although hardly the first in a respectable procession of materials commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, this book is likely to become one of the more durable members of the march. The authors all have respectable research and writing credentials in military history, beginning with assisting in the magisterial works of the late Gordon V. Prange. They have collaborated on a clear, concise, balanced text that is inevitably somewhat cursory but does put the battle in its larger context, and have done very well in presenting a generous selection of photographs and maps. The selection of photos, in particular, avoids most of the old chestnuts of the battle and provides one of the best unofficial visual coverages of it ever seen. Roland Green

Edition details

• Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028810694
• ISBN 13: 9780028810690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191