In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting.
THE PRINCIPAL COMMANDERS AND THEIR FORCES
Chapter 2: The Bridges to Arnhem
Chapter 3: The Frontiers of Germany
Chapter 4: The Russians at the Vistula
Chapter 7: Hell in the Hürtgen
Chapter 8: The Bulge: An American Epic
Chapter 10: Blood and Ice: East Prussia
Chapter 11: Firestorms: War in the Sky
Chapter 12: Marching on the Rhine
Chapter 13: Prisoners of the Reich
Chapter 14: Collapse in the West
Chapter 15: “The Earth Will Shake as We Leave the Scene”