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Nobecourt, Jacques Hitler's Last Gamble. the Battle of the Bulge.
New York Schocken Books 1967 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
302 pages, 4 plates, maps, cloth, DJ, very good. Translated from the French by R. H. Barry. From the dust jacket: " The story of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II is here told adequately for the first time-and quite a few legends are disposed of in the process. The Battle of the Bulge was the final aggressive lunge forward of Germany's great war machine and a supreme challenge to the bravery, strength, and brains of the Allied armies-in particular to the Americans, for the Battle of the Bulge soon became an American battle. Just when Germany seemed on the verge of complete collapse, her armies driven from Normandy almost to the Rhine, she launched a sudden counterattack. In December, 1944, the German Panzer divisions repeated the stunning surprise of 1940-with much the same intentions in the same area of the Ardennes, with the same von Rundstedt in command - and again succeeded in achieving a spectacular breakthrough. Although the balance of strength had shifted considerably in the meantime, there were virtually no Allied reserves, and it required every resource of man and materiel to contain the breakthrough. Jacques Nobecourt, a correspondent for Le Monde, applies his fine powers of observation to analyze both the military and the political aspects of the battle. He traces the course of the tense, fast-moving events in the field, focusing on the advance of the German columns and the crucial siege of the isolated Americans in Bastogne. On the tactical level, he recounts the exploits of the German paratroopers and the men disguised in Allied uniforms. Vividly he elucidates the somewhat tangled and acrimonious relations between the generals in the rear, especially between the brilliant, but discordant, Patton and Montgomery. One commander emerges with his military reputation undiminished: General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces Europe. "; 302 pages
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