Battle: The Story of the Bulge - John Toland

The Story of the Bulge was first published in 1959 and written by John Toland. It tells the story of Hitler's last desperate gamble in the Western theatre of World War 2. On December the 16th, 1944, he launched the Ardennes Offensive - destined to become equally well known as The Battle of the Bulge because of the 'bulge' it created in the Allied front line positions. It was an audacious but impossible gambit that squandered Germany's last coherent armoured reserves in the West and probably hastened the end of the war by a good few months. The dense and snowy forests of the Ardennes, where relatively scant and inexperienced American forces were resting and refitting in ...  Read the complete review