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7%OFFJohn Toland - Battle: The Story of the Bulge - 9780803294370 - V9780803294370
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Battle: The Story of the Bulge

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Description for Battle: The Story of the Bulge Paperback. Helps you understand generals and GIs and what their different wars were like. The author has devoted years to studying memoirs, interviewing veterans and consulting military documents, both German and American. He also has revisited the old battlefields in Belgium and Luxembourg. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.

The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line. . . . If you could read only one book to understand generals and GIs and what their different wars ... Read moreChicago Sunday Tribune

The author has devoted years to studying memoirs, interviewing veterans and consulting military documents, both German and American. He also has revisited the old battlefields in Belgium and Luxembourg. . . . Toland has told the whole story with dramatic realism. . . . It is a story of panic, terror and of high-hearted courage.New York Times Book Review

For the first time in the growing literature of World War II, the inspiring story of the stubborn, lonely, dogged battle of the Americans locked in this tragic salient is told. . . . gripping . . . You cannot put it down once you start it.San Francisco Chronicle

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803294370
SKU
V9780803294370
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About John Toland
John Toland has written numerous books on World War II, including Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. Carlo D’Este is the author of Patton: A Genius for War and other works.

Reviews for Battle: The Story of the Bulge
"The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if ... Read more

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