BATTLE: THE STORY OF THE BULGE

Book ID/图书代码： 02330007B18433

English Summary/英文概要： With victory in sight, U.S. forces suddenly found their backs to the wait in the winter of 1944, as German tanks roared out of the night, in a desperate gamble that only a madman would have attempted. An advance to the Channel coast and the capture of the ports just might have knocked the Western allies out of the war or allowed the Germans to concentrate on the Russians for a crucial period. The SS panzer corps spearheading the attack did not figure on the U.S. 101 st Airborne Division and other units fighting on although surrounded, critically slowing down the offensive. The author has drawn upon official archives and interviews with many veterans of the campaign, some of whom had declined to speak to previous historians.
Reprint of John Toland’s first work of military history, the saga of how beleaguered American troops not only resisted Hitler’s deadly counteroffensive in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, but turned it into an Allied victory.
“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 were like this is the book.”

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 约翰托兰在写本书时采访了美国将军克拉克、德国将军曼妥菲尔男爵、传奇般的突击队长斯克尔策尼……还有四百余名战争幸存者、七十五名经历战争的平民等。为收集材料，他先后在美、英、法、德、比利时、西班牙和卢森堡跑了十万英里，去过国会议员的办公室、美国国家档案馆、西点军校和五角大楼、阿登地区的大大小小的城堡、比利时的废矿井、达豪集中营的毒气室、西班牙海滩，还有无数的昔日战场.这本书奠定了他在二战史学界的地位。(RH)

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About the Author/作者介绍： John Toland was one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His many books include Ships in the Sky; Battle: The Story of the Bulge; But Not in Shame; The Rising Sun; Adolf Hitler; and No Man’s Land. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Connecticut for many years with his wife.
约翰托兰,美国著名作家、历史学家。1912年生于威斯康星，参加过二战.他的书有独立创见、富有文学性和感染力。代表作有：《最后一百天：希特勒第三帝国覆亡记》、《从乞丐到元首》、《日本帝国的衰亡》、《占领日本》和《漫长的战斗：美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》等。其中《日本帝国的衰亡》获1971年度的普利策新闻奖。

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