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"...applies his well-honed narrative skills to a reexamination of this well-known battle. With an attention to detail that informs but does not bore, Forty reveals his remarkable knowledge of the intricacies of German and U.S. armored and infantry tactics in the Ardennes. Greatly assisting the reader is an abundance of battle maps. Appendixes provide detailed information about the military units for all combatants, as well as thumbnail biographies of the major players....Forty's contribution should easily stand the test of time. For all collections."--Library Journal.
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Lt Col George Forty OBE FMA saw action as a young subaltern in the Korean War. An experienced tank commander, he took up the role of Curator of the Tank Museum in Bovington, and has since established an international reputation as a military historian of note, with more than 40 books to his name.
From Library Journal
An entire generation can remember the sterling performances of Henry Fonda, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, and many others in the stirring (if overblown) 1965 movie Battle of the Bulge. In the years since that fateful December of 1944, at least two dozen books have appeared, devoted solely to telling this story. Yet it can be told again and told well. Forty, retired director and curator of the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, and author of numerous books on tank warfare in World War II, applies his well-honed narrative skills to a reexamination of this well-known battle. With an attention to detail that informs but does not bore, Forty reveals his remarkable knowledge of the intricacies of German and U.S. armored and infantry tactics in the Ardennes. Greatly assisting the reader is an abundance of battle maps. Appendixes provide detailed information about the military units for all combatants, as well as thumbnail biographies of the major players. Despite a flurry of recent histories (Danny S. Parker's Battle of the Bulge, Combined Pub., 1997; Trevor N. Dupuy and others' Hitler's Last Gamble, HarperCollins, 1995), Forty's contribution should easily stand the test of time. For all collections. Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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- PublisherCassell
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0304358029
- ISBN 13 9780304358021
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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- Number of pages352
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