The Battle of the Bulge: Britain's Untold Story

by Whiting, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780750918695
• ISBN10: 0750918691
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

The Battle of the Bulge was the greatest land battle waged by the US Army this century. Both popular belief and official history attribute this victory to the Americans. For political reasons no mention was ever made of the crucial British involvement in this battle, when the XXX Corps fought a decisive action and halted the German drive to the river Meuse-but against a total news blackout and at the cost of 2,500 British trrops. The British role in the Battle of the Bulge does not exist on paper. Using eyewitness accounts from British, American, and german soldiers, and belgian citizens, this book will set the record straight, telling the true story of the British involvement in the Battle of the Bulge.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xii
BOOK ONE: THE ATTACK	xii
16--18 December 1944	3	(39)
Saturday, Day One	3	(14)
Sunday, Day Two	17	(14)
Monday, Day Three	31	(11)
19--21 December 1944	42	(41)
Tuesday, Day Four	42	(13)
Wednesday, Day Five	55	(15)
Thursday, Day Six	70	(13)
22--5 December 1944	83	(56)
Friday, Day Seven	83	(7)
Saturday, Day Eight	90	(10)
Sunday, Day Nine	100	(19)
Monday, Day Ten	119	(20)
BOOK TWO: COUNTER-ATTACK
26 December 1944-3 January 1945	139	(35)
Tuesday, Day Eleven	139	(9)
Wednesday, Day Twelve to Monday, Day Seventeen	148	(8)
Tuesday, Day Eighteen	156	(7)
Wednesday, Day Nineteen	163	(11)
4--10 January 1945	174	(29)
Thursday, Day Twenty	174	(6)
Friday, Day Twenty-one	180	(11)
Saturday, Day Twenty-two	191	(5)
Sunday, Day Twenty-three	196	(7)
Envoi	203	(6)
Select Bibliography	209	(1)
Index	210