It was the biggest and bloodiest single battle American soldiers ever fought -- one in which nearly 80,000 Americans were killed, maimed, or captured. Packed with extraordinary newsreel and Army footage, Battle of the Bulge captures the action on the battle's frontlines and the strategy behind the scenes.
Websites
The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge
An online book about the Battle of the Bulge on the U.S. Army Center of Military History website.
Books
Anderson, Jr., Michael C., David L. Bongard, and Trevor N. Dupuy. Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Burke Fessler, Diane, ed. No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1996.
Haas, Ann Pollinger, and Herbert Hendin. Wounds of War. New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1984.
Merriam, Robert E. Dark December. New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1947.
Sears, Stephen W., ed. Eyewitness to World War II: The Best of American Heritage. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.
Stevens, Michael E., ed. Letters from the Front: 1898-1945. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1992.
Toland, John. Battle: The Story of the Bulge. New York: Random House, 1959.
After the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, British and American pilots delivered tons of food and fuel to the German city by airplane for nearly a year.
General Douglas MacArthur led American troops in World Wars I and II before being fired by President Harry Truman during the Korean War.
A look at five real-life "Rosies," the reality of working in defense plants during World War II and then having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops invaded Normandy, fighting to free Europe from Nazi occupation and end World War II.
An American Communist family that had fled to Moscow in the late 1920s, return to America in 1935 but can not bring their 5-year-old son.
The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.
After notorious revolutionary leader Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, General John Pershing and his 150,000 man cavalry set out to get Villa.
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.
