The Battle Of The Bulge: The Definitive Account (1984) By Charles B. MacDonald
 
On 16 December 1944, out of the mists and snows of the Ardennes, 250,000 German troops struck with complete surprise in Hitler's last desperate attempt to stem the Allied advance. The Battle of the Bulge involved more than a million men and was the result of the most abysmal battlefield intelligence failure in the history of the US Army. It was also the gravest crisis to confront the Allied command on the Western Front during the final years of the War. This book, published on the occasion of the Battle's fortieth anniversary, is the definitive account and was written by a former official US Army historian of World War Two who is himself a veteran of the Bulge campaign. Drawing on his unique investigations and access to documents, Charles B. MacDonald makes startling new disclosures He uses previously secret ULTRA and MAGIC intercepts to reveal that Allied intelligence officers did have sufficient information to anticipate a big German offensive - but, incredibly, they failed to do so. Through lucid personal accounts he has established that, however dramatic the fight for Bastogne, the most critical struggle occurred near Monschau, where a sparsely augmented single US infantry division halted the Sixth Panzer Army. Other new material includes interviews with survivors of the infamous Malmedy massacre and German commanders and foot-soldiers, as well as the experiences of civilians trapped by the Battle.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (1984) and Soft Cover (1985) Options
712 pages
In Good condition