Battle of the Bulge, Operation Market Garden, Wacht Am Rhein, .......

Some episodes of history are more than unforgettable, they are thrilling every time one thinks of them. One such is the battle of the bulge, when the allied forces were further out than could be logistically supported and German forces unexpectedly turned around to strike back, and the allies were surrounded on almost all sides with almost no option but to surrender or be massacred - and yet the commander famously replied "nuts" to the proposal of surrender from the Germans, barely taking the cigar out of his mouth for saying that much calmly, immediately, nonchalantly.

Patton was in Italy and was informed of the bulge and the urgency - and he drove his army in an impossible drive across to the battlefront in Ardennes near Belgian border in time to save the situation, the men, the battle and the war.


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Some of the books about the battle of the bulge:-
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Battle, The Story of the Bulge: by John Toland.

American Experience - The Battle of the Bulge


The Battle of the Bulge : the photographic history of an American triumph
by John R. Bruning

The Bitter Woods : The Battle Of The Bulge
by John D. Eisenhower

BATTLE OF THE BULGE, HITLER'S ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 1944-1945
by Danny Parker

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon (2004)
by Alex Kershaw

The Battered Bastards of Bastogne: The 101st Airborne and the Battle of the Bulge, December 19,1944-January 17,1945
by George Koskimaki

Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
by Donald R. Burgett

A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It (Dell World War II Library) (1992)
by Gerald Astor

Time for Trumpets, A (1985)
by Charles Brown MacDonald

Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible (edit title/settings)
by John C. McManus

Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
by Charles B. MacDonald

Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge (2000)
by George W. Neill

The Battle of Hurtgen Forest
by Charles B. MacDonald

Yanks : The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I (2001)
by John S. D. Eisenhower

Easy Company Soldier
The Endless Combat of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
by Bob Welch (Author), Don Malarkey

IT NEVER SNOWS IN SEPTEMBER: The German View of Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem September 1944
by Robert J. Kershaw

Germans In Normandy (Stackpole Military History)
by Richard Hargreaves

Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich
by Douglas E. Nash

Arnhem 1944: Operation 'Market Garden' (Campaign)
by Stephen Badsey

NIJMEGEN: U.S. 82nd Airborne Division - 1944 (Battleground Europe: Market Garden)
by Tim Saunders

A Drop Too Many: A Paratrooper at Arnhem (Stackpole Military History Series) (1980)
by John Frost

A magnificent disaster : the failure of Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944
by David Bennett


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