The bleak midwinter, 1947 / by Robertson, Alex

The Battle of the Bulge : Hitler's final gamble / by Delaforce, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: bleak midwinter -- Winston Churchill: Forward leap was over -- Euphoria followed by complacency -- On the other side of the hill: Third Reich -- Allied generals at war -- Hitler's great counter-offensive plans -- Hitler's brilliant deception plans -- Hitler's deceptions: Stosser and Greif -- Air war -- Hitler's battle plan -- Secret war of ultra and enigma -- Ardennes battlegrounds: Ghost front -- 'All hell's broken loose' -- Losheim gap battle: Gallant cavalry -- Doom and destruction of the young ̀golden lions' -- Checkerboard' division: ̀a hurricane of iron and fire' -- Ivy' division defend ̀little Switzerland' -- Battles for the twin towns and the Elsenborn ridge -- Colonel Fuller and the keystones: ̀Buckets of blood' -- Peiper, Hitler's bodyguard and the massacres -- Defence of St Vith -- Montgomery takes command of us 1st and 9th armies -- Rise and fall of Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer Army -- Battle for Wiltz -- Dying days of Kampfengruppe Peiper -- Seventh army has problems in the South -- Air war 16--25 December: ̀Metallic starlings' -- All roads lead to Bastogne -- Patton relieves Bastogne? …”