The Battle of the Bulge was the last hurrah for the German Army on the Western Front. With the help of various unpublished sources, Samuel Mitcham sets out to tell the story of that battle and of the Ardennes Offensive from the German point of view. The greatest military disaster the United States suffered in the European Theater of Operations in World War II occurred in the Ardennes Offensive, when most of the U.S. 106th Infantry Division was destroyed in the Schnee Eifel (Snow Mountains). Mitcham covers the Battle of the Schnee Eifel from the German point of view in greater depth than any book has ever done, using unpublished German after-action reports and manuscripts, especially those of Lieutenant Colonel Dietrich Moll, the chief of operations of the 18th Volksgrenadier. Similar unpublished works, as well as the papers of Theodor-Friedrich von Stauffenberg, contribute to a unique account of the Battle of the Bulge.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tables and Figures
Preface
Setting the Stage
Planning and Preparations
The Offensive Begins
The Battle on the Northern Flank
The Destruction of KG Peiper
The Schnee Eifel
St. Vith
The Siege of Bastogne
The High Water Mark
Clearing the Bulge
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Military Units
General Index
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