Charles B MacDonald

December 16,1944, the vanguard of three Grerman armies totaling 500,000 men suddenly attacked out of the mists and snows of the rugged Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg in what was the last desperate gamble of Adolf Hitler to reverse the impending defeat of Nazi Germany. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, the Germans achieved total surprise. Six hundred thousand Americans fought in what...

River Crossing at Arnaville is the story of a battle that started badly and ended in victory; Objective: Schmidt, of a battle that began with an unexpectedly easy success and turned into tragic defeat. Break-Through at Monte Altuzzo is the account of how, after a succession of misguided efforts, a comparatively small number of men penetrated the formidable Gothic Line in Italy.