The Battered Bastards of Bastogne

by Koskimaki, George E.

• ISBN13: 9781932033069
• ISBN10: 1932033068
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words.

The material contributed by these men of the 101st Airborne Division, the Armor, Tank Destroyer, Army Air Force, and others is tailored meticulously by the author and placed on the historical framework known to most students of the Battle of the Bulge.

Pieces of a nearly 60 year old jigsaw puzzle come together in this book, when memoirs related by one soldier fit with those of another unit or group pursuing the battle from another nearby piece of terrain.

Table of Contents

Foreword	i
Acknowledgments	iii
Glossary/U.S. Army Rankings	v
Interlude	1	(19)
The Alert	20	(10)
The Trip to Bastogne	30	(12)
December 19	42	(64)
December 20	106	(61)
December 21	167	(25)
December 22	192	(16)
December 23	208	(31)
Christmas Eve	239	(26)
Christmas Day	265	(43)
The Siege Is Broken	308	(16)
December 27	324	(19)
Calm Before A Storm	343	(12)
December 31	355	(15)
January 2, 1945	370	(5)
January 3, 1945	375	(23)
January 4, 1945	398	(10)
A Respite	408	(3)
On the Offensive	411	(40)
Mopping Up	451	(12)
Epilogue	463	(5)
Bibliography	468	(2)
Contributors	470	(5)
Index	475