Author: Beevor, Anthony,
Title: ARDENNES 1944 - HITLER'S LAST GAMBLE.
Description: Penguin/Viking, London, 2015, 1st edn., xix, 451 pp. 24 pp. half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a very readable account of the German Ardennes offensive in December 1944, when three field armies, spearheaded by the 6th panzer Army, broke out through the forests of the Ardennes in an effort to split the Allied advance and reach Antwerp. The author's account details the actions of individual units as well as the friction between the Allied commanders, particularly between Montgomery.and Eisenhower and Montgomery and Bradley. Montgomery eventually overstepped the amount of dissent that Eisenhower would permit and ended up banished to advance into Northern Germany, leaving the heart of Germany to Bradley and Patton. lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 army ardennes belgium malmady eisenhower montgomery bradley patton


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