Автор: Peter Schrijvers
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf, epub, djvu
Страниц: 341
Размер: 15,65 Мб
Язык: английский
Hitler’s last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious American defenders who held back a tenfold larger German force while awaiting the arrival of General George Patton’s mighty Third Army.In this dramatic account of the 1944–45 winter of war in Bastogne, historian Peter Schrijvers offers the first full story of the German assault on the strategically located town.