50.2°N 5.7°E Western Europe Battle of the Bulge
Briefing
On 16 December 1944 Germany threw 200,000 men through the snow-bound Ardennes in a final gamble to split the Allied armies and retake Antwerp. The surprise was total, the defence of Bastogne became legend, and the month-long battle that followed was the largest in US Army history, costing some 19,000 American dead.
Books Covering This Event (11)
Popular History
The definitive history of the Battle of the Bulge, by a historian who fought in it as a company commander.
The story of Easy Company, 506th PIR, from D-Day to Hitler's Eagle's Nest.
The American soldier's experience from the Normandy beaches to the fall of Germany.
The western Allies' grinding advance into Germany from the Rhine to the Elbe.
Eighteen men of an intelligence platoon hold off a German battalion on the first morning of the Bulge — then vanish into POW camps.
The final volume of the Liberation Trilogy: from D-Day to the fall of the Third Reich.
Memoir
A 21-year-old captain leads a rifle company through the Siegfried Line and the Bulge.
Patton's war diary from Morocco to the Rhine, published two years after his death.
The Supreme Commander's own account of the war in the West, from Torch to the German surrender.
A replacement infantry officer from Normandy to the Bulge — of his original company, almost no one else lasted.
Easy Company's commander tells his own story — Brécourt Manor, Bastogne, and the burden of leading men you love.