A Blood-dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It - Hardcover

Astor, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556112815 ISBN 13: 9781556112812

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1992

Synopsis

American and German soldiers and officers recount the chaotic events of the Battle of the Bulge as each one saw them from his own individual perspective

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From the Back Cover:

THE ALLIES HAD BROKEN OUT ACROSS FRANCE.

HITLER ORDERED A DESPERATE COUNTERATTACK.

THE ARDENNES WOULD RUN WITH BLOOD...

A furious all-or-nothing German winter counterattack caught the Allies by surprise. Their lines shattered, American soldiers fought with guns and guts and bayonets to slow down the onslaught; fought to separate their comrades from Germans dressed in U.S. uniforms; fought to survive the horrors of such battle sites as Baraque de Fraiture, Elsenborn Ridge, or the infamous Malmedy massacre of unarmed POWs. When it was over, the Allies had suffered 81,000 casualties; the Germans, 125,000.

This extraordinary chronicle sweeps us into the most cataclysmic World War II land battle -- from tank duels to hand-to-hand combat and guerilla warfare. In the words of the flesh-and-blood men who fought it, this is the definitive portrait of the chaos, the terror, and the acts of courage and carnage that was the Bulge.

About the Author:

Gerald Astor is a World War II veteran and award-winning journalist and historian whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, and Esquire. He is also the author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It and Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II. He makes his home in Scarsdale, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1556112815
• ISBN 13: 9781556112812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 532