BATTLE OF THE BULGE
THEN AND NOW

Jean Paul Pallud

The remarkable impartiality of Mr Pallud's calm, measured reportage gives the reader confidence that the narrative is as free from distortion as any account can be . . .
intricate . . . majestic . . . a dauntingly massive book.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Nine days before Christmas 1944 Hitler played Germany's last card on which he staked everything to turn the tables in the West. This is the first time that an attempt has been made to cover the entire salient in order to present the battle in our familiar 'then and now' format. Hundreds of miles have been travelled by the author throughout every corner of the battlefield to search out the scenes of past events — every known photograph belonging to combatants, civilians, and in public collections and private sources has been sought or considered. all the cine film has been examined frame by frame and certain sequences illustrated and analysed. In this way a number of classic pictures almost always used — or misused — in depicting the Ardennes battle are not only placed in their context in the German advance but are also shown to be not always quite what they seem!

ISBN 0 900913 40 1
SIZE 12"×8½"
544 PAGES
1260 ILLUSTRATIONS
31 MAPS
£44.95
CODE F009

COMPLETE CONTENTS

PART I 'WACHT AM RHEIN'

The Decision to Regain the Initiative

Operational Planning

Condition of the Attack Force

Orders for Deception and Secrecy

Orders for the Attack

'Wacht am Rhein': Order of Battle

Build-up

Special Operations

The Panzer Spearheads

The Failure of Allied Intelligence

Hitler's Final Comments at FHQu 'Adlerhorst'

PART 2 BREAKTHROUGH

6. PANZER-ARMEE

LXVII. Armeekorps stopped on the northern flank

Operation 'Stosser'

1. SS-Panzerkorps: Elsenborn Ridge

Rollbahn C: 12. SS-Panzer-Division

Operation 'Greif'

1. SS-Panzerkorps: Kampfgruppe Peiper

5. PANZER-ARMEE

LXVI. Armeekorps: the Schnee Eifel and Saint-Vith

LVIII. Panzerkorps reaches Hotton

XXXXVII. Panzerkorps advances west of Bastogne

7. ARMEE

LXXXV. Armeekorps crosses the Our

LXXX. Armeekorps battles west of the Sûre

PART 3 HIGH TIDE

6. PANZER-ARMEE

Evacuation of the Saint-Vith salient

1. SS-Panzerkorps: the end of Kampfgruppe Peiper

11. SS-Panzerkorps checked at Manhay

5. PANZER-ARMEE

LVIII. Panzerkorps fails east of Marche

Nuts! XXXXVII. Panzerkorps at Bastogne

XXXXVII. Panzerkorps glimpses the Meuse

7. ARMEE

The US Third Army counter-attack

US 111 Corps

US Xll Corps

PART 4 THE BEGINNING OF THE END

'We shall yet master fate'

Allied counter-plans

6. PANZER-ARMEE

11. SS-Panzerkorpst attempt to break through at Erezee

5. PANZER-ARMEE

Fight to cut the Bastogne Corridor

Third Army's attack develops

7. ARMEE

PART 5 ESCAPE FROM THE SALIENT

Heeresgruppe G and Operation 'Nordwind'

New Year's Day - Operation 'Bodenplatte'

Bastogne: Epilogue to Failure

The pressure mounts: The First Army counter-attacks

The threat from the Third Army along the Our

Finis

The Cost

PART 6 THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY

The Memorials

The Museums

COMPARATIVE RANK TABLE

THE AWARDS: Ritterkreuz, Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross

MILITARY UNIT SIGNS

AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT