Publications Combined The Battle Of The Bulge Key Writings Of The Ardennes Rhine And Bastogne

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 2063 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Publications Combined: The Battle Of The Bulge - Key Writings Of The Ardennes, Rhine And Bastogne by Anonim Pdf

Well over 2,000 total pages ... INTRODUCTION The Germans called it the “Operation Watch on the Rhine.” The French named it the “Battle of the Ardennes.” And the Western Allies termed it the “Ardennes Counteroffensive.” But because of the way the map of Western Europe looked at the height of the battle, it became known to history as the “Battle of the Bulge.” It was the winter of 1944–1945, months before the war in Europe would end. Despite the protestations of his generals, Adolf Hitler decided on one final attempt to turn World War II in favor of his German Third Reich. For this, he ordered resources diverted from other battle fronts—including his losing campaign against the Russians in the east. The Allies were caught of guard, as Hitler had hoped. Thousands of U.S. troops were surrounded at one point. In the end, the Allies committed enough troops that the tired, ill-equipped German army was overwhelmed. Indeed, the Battle of the Bulge was an important turning point in the war in the Allies’ favor, but it was not without its cost. The Battle of the Bulge is considered one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. CONTENTS 1. Introduction: The Battle of the Bulge Loomed Large 70 Winters Ago 2. BATTLE OF THE BULGE: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN - A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources 3. The U.S. Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge 4. U.S. Army in Action Bastogne - The First Eight Days 5. The Campaigns of World War II Ardennes-Alsace (75th Anniversary) 6. The Last Offensive 7. THE ROLE OF AIR POWER IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE 8. Missed Opportunity: Reducing the Bulge 9. THE FAILURE OF GERMAN LOGISTICS DURING THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE OF 1944 10. BEGINNING OF THE END: THE LEADERSHIP OF SS OBERSTURMBANNFÜHRER JOCHEN PEIPER

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 9781563110139

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Battle of the Bulge by Anonim Pdf

Consists primarily of biographies of soldiers.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517070147

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The Siege of Bastogne by Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "They've got us surrounded - the poor bastards." - American army medic in Bastogne, December 20th, 1944 After the successful amphibious invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies began racing east toward Germany and liberating France along the way. The Allies had landed along a 50 mile stretch of French coast, and despite suffering 8,000 casualties on D-Day, over 100,000 still began the march across the western portion of the continent. By the end of August 1944, the German Army in France was shattered, with 200,000 killed or wounded and a further 200,000 captured. However, Adolf Hitler reacted to the news of invasion with glee, figuring it would give the Germans a chance to destroy the Allied armies that had water to their backs. As he put it, "The news couldn't be better. We have them where we can destroy them." While that sounds delusional in retrospect, it was Hitler's belief that by splitting the Allied march across Europe in their drive toward Germany, he could cause the collapse of the enemy armies and cut off their supply lines. Part of Hitler's confidence came as a result of underestimating American resolve, but with the Soviets racing toward Berlin from the east, this final offensive would truly be the last gasp of the German war machine, and the month long campaign was fought over a large area of the Ardennes Forest, through France, Belgium and parts of Luxembourg. From an Allied point of view, the operations were commonly referred to as the Ardennes Offensive, while the German code phrase for the operation was Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), with the initial breakout going under the name of "Operation Mist." Today, Americans know it best as the Battle of the Bulge. Bastogne would become a legendary linchpin in the defense against the Ardennes Offensive, in part for its strategic importance but also because of the almost superhuman effort made to protect it. Seven important roads converged with the town of Bastogne, and the Germans, on their way to Antwerp, recognized its importance as a hub, but with the weather obscuring the military map and intelligence at an unusually low rate of abundance or reliability, no Americans on the ground, from private to general, knew precisely what was about to happen, or in what way it would manifest itself. Three officers, Colonel S.L.A. Marshall, Captain John G. Westover and Lieutenant A. Joseph Webber, collaborated to put it quite succinctly in the Washington Infantry Journal when they described Bastogne as "a series of small, dramatic military actions related more by circumstances beyond the control of the defensive forces involved than by the design of a single commander..." In an astonishing feat of planning, logistics and discipline, Patton's army redirected 133,000 vehicles, 62,000 tons of supplies, and the vehicles and men covered a combined distance of 1.5 million miles. To his superiors' amazement, Patton was poised to reach Bastogne and attack the Germans on December 22, and on December 21, he told Bradley, "Brad, this time the Kraut's stuck his head in the meat grinder, and I've got hold of the handle." Of course, for Patton's Third Army to relieve the siege, the men had to hold out a few days, which they were able to do because supplies were parachuted in and the Germans eschewed frontal assaults. In the end, Patton's army reached Bastogne in 4 days and lifted the siege, even he used superlatives to describe the action at Bastogne, calling it "the most brilliant operation we have thus far performed, and it is in my opinion the outstanding achievement of the war. This is my biggest battle."

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698411494

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Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor Pdf

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp and forcing the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back. The allies, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians abandoned their homes, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic spread even to Paris. While some American soldiers, overwhelmed by the German onslaught, fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance. The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the Eastern Front. In fact the Ardennes became the Western Front’s counterpart to Stalingrad. There was terrible ferocity on both sides, driven by desperation and revenge, in which the normal rules of combat were breached. The Ardennes—involving more than a million men—would prove to be the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht. In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive which was to become the greatest battle of World War II.

Author : Hugh M. Cole
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge by Hugh M. Cole Pdf

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 0160420695

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The Ardennes by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

Author : Peter Schrijvers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300179026

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Those who Hold Bastogne by Peter Schrijvers Pdf

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 : Stephen Rusiecki
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275953027

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The Key to the Bulge by Stephen Rusiecki Pdf

Major Rusiecki tells the story of a pitched and decisive battle that unhinged the German plan for a swift and successful counteroffensive in December 1944 (a battle that was the key to the counteroffensive later called the Battle of the Bulge). A lone regiment of the 99th U.S. Infantry Division, the 394th, successfully defended a critical road intersection, the Losheimergraben Crossroads, for 36 hours from 16 to 17 December 1944. This valiant defense incurred a delay from which the 6th SS Panzer Army, the main effort of Hitler's Wacht am Rhein counteroffensive, could never recover. When the 394th finally withdrew on 17 December, the Germans already had to shift their focus farther south, to St. Vith and Bastogne, a move that sealed their eventual defeat. The battle for Losheimergraben is, in fact, the most significant action that occurred in the early hours of the Battle of the Bulge.

Author : Robert E. Merriam
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0345278909

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The Battle of the Bulge by Robert E. Merriam Pdf

Author : Robin Neillands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1028661939

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The Battle for the Rhine by Robin Neillands Pdf

Author : Danny S. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023599348

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The Battle of the Bulge, the German View by Danny S. Parker Pdf

This text examines preparations for the offensive, the progress of the operation and assessments of the Wehrmacht's performance from leading figures in German high command, including a transcription of Hitler's key speech on December 12th, 1944.

Author : Bill Cain
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781404207820

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The Battle of The Bulge by Bill Cain Pdf

Explains the events of the Battle of the Bulge in graphic novel format.

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1070989792

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The Ardennes by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

The German winter counteroffensive of December 1944-January 1945 with a detailed description of German plans and Allied efforts to eliminate the bulge in their lines.

Author : Robin Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1932033009

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The Battle of the Bulge, 1944 by Robin Cross Pdf

In December 1944, the German Army launched an attack through the Ardennes forest that aimed to seize the port of Antwerp and cut the Allied supply lines, hoping to force the Western Allies either to delay their advance or agree to a peace settlement. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Hope is a comprehensive history of Hitler's last offensive in the West, the failure of which undoubtedly hastened the end of the war. The book begins with a study of the background to the battle, and a description of events in the West leading up to the offensive. The strategic importance of Antwerp as a major port close to the Allied lines is explained, as are the factors which led Hitler to believe an attack could be successful. The poor state of the Allies' defenses and the low readiness of the American troops on the front line in the Ardennes are covered in depth, as are the special tactics used by the Germans for the attack, most notably Jochen Peiper's commandos dressed in American uniforms. The book shows how, after initial German success, a bitter struggle developed between the German and American forces for the key town of Bastogne. It details how the offensive lost momentum and thus any chance of success, particularly once the skies cleared and the Allies were able to bring the full weight of their airpower to bear. The book's authoritative text is complemented with detailed maps explaining the troop movements, which took place during the battle. It also includes appendices with information on orders of battle, losses and equipment. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Hope is a comprehensive account of the battle that saw a German attempt to relive the successes of 1940, but one that was effectively doomed from the beginning, and the consequences of that failure for Hitler's Third Reich.

Author : William K. Goolrick,Ogden Tanner
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 0783557027

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The Battle of the Bulge by William K. Goolrick,Ogden Tanner Pdf

An illustrated account of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes in 1944 that became a threat to the Allied forces.