Best Battle of the Bulge book. Period.

It’s not like I hadn’t read any other books about the Battle of the Bulge before, but this one came recommended to me by our favorite battlefield guid Joris Nieuwint. It had been on my bookshelf for a while until I started it. At over 700 pages, it’s a serious book. But have to admit that once I started reading, I devoured it.

The author writes very engagingly and the book is extremely well researched. It has a great index and list of sources, which is very handy for future reference.

There’s a lot to like about this book, but generally speaking, I enjoyed the explanation about the wider context and significance of the Bulge. Especially the unit histories skip this entirely, and the older books about the Bulge in general also don’t deal with this.

I also found many anecdotes and details that I was not familiar with. Also quite a lot of myth busting. In particular, I have now become more fascinated than before with Operation Greif. So much so, that I am planning to make a display about it. But that’s for another time.

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