Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge - Rilegato

Schrijvers, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0300179022 ISBN 13: 9780300179026

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich

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. From the December stampede of American and Panzer divisions racing to reach Bastogne first, through the bloody eight-day siege from land and air, and through three more weeks of unrelenting fighting even after the siege was broken, events at Bastogne hastened the long-awaited end of WWII. Schrijvers draws on diaries, memoirs, and other fresh sources to illuminate the experiences not only of Bastogne’s 3,000 citizens and their American defenders, but also of German soldiers and commanders desperate for victory. The costs of war are here made real, uncovered in the stories of those who perished and those who emerged from battle to find the world forever changed.

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Recensione:

'An excellent account of the battle for Bastogne, both well researched and well written.' --Antony Beevor

'A fast-paced story ... Schrijvers does an admirable job of weaving personal accounts into the larger picture of Bastogne's horrors.' - Wall Street Journal

'A lively account of the fighting.' --Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs

'A highly informative and entertaining work by a Battle of the Bulge expert, Peter Schrijvers' Those Who Hold Bastogne contributes significantly to our knowledge of this pivotal World War II battle.' --Joseph Balkoski, author of Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944

'It provides a more vivid and nuanced picture of the crucial fighting for control of Bastogne than any other book.' --James J. Weingartner, author of Crossroads of Death, The Story of the Malmedy Massacre and Trial

'Well researched and written at a good pace, this is an excellent account of an epic and brutal struggle.' --David Flintham, Military History

'Those who Hold Bastogne is the first study of the Battle of the Bulge to focus on the fight in Bastogne and the role of the civilians who were caught up in the battle.Well-researched, it chronicles the battle day by day and often hour by hour. Within the narrative, numerous individual memoirs are included, giving an up close and personal element to the story.' --J.W. Thacker, Bowling Green Daily News

L'autore:

Peter Schrijvers, a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, is the author of five previous books on World War II.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300179022
• ISBN 13: 9780300179026
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 310