A Blood-Dimmed Tide by Gerald Astor

A Blood-Dimmed Tide by Gerald Astor

HITLER ORDERED A DESPERATE COUNTERATACK.

THE ARDENES WOULD RUN WITH BLOD.

A furious all-or-nothing German winter counterattack caught the Allies by surprise. Their lines shattered, American soldiers fought with guns and guts and bayonets to slow down the onslaught; fought to separate their comrades from Germans dressed in U.S. uniforms; fought to survive the horrors of such battle sites as Baraque de Fraiture, Elsenborn Ridge, or the infamous Malmedy massacre of unarmed POWs. When it was over, the Allies had suffered 81,000 casualties; the Germans, 125,000.

This extraordinary chronicle sweeps us into the most cataclysmic World War I land battle -- from tank duels to hand-to-hand combat and guerilla warfare. In the words of the flesh-and-blood men who fought it, this is the definitive portrait of the chaos, the terror, and the acts of courage and carnage that was the Bulge.

Gerald Astor is a WWII veteran and award-winning journalist and historian whose work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Playboy, and Esquire. A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Soldiers Who Fought It and Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Capture of Okinawa in World War II are two of his other books. He currently resides in Scarsdale, New York.