Overview

On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieving what had been considered impossible - total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war.

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"""Combines a historian's detachment and precision with the personal feeling of a man who was there."" ""--The New York Times Book Review"""

Combines a historian's detachment and precision with the personal feeling of a man who was there. --The New York Times Book Review

Combines a historian's detachment and precision with the personal feeling of a man who was there. <br> --The New York Times Book Review

Author Information

The late Charles B. MacDonald served in four European campaigns and received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. After the war, he wrote Company Commander regarded as a World War II classic. After retiring in 1979 as Deputy Chief Historian, U.S. Army, he devoted the next five years to writing A Time for Trumpets.

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