If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground — the largest single action fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Taking a new approach to an old story, Harold Winton widens our field of vision by showing how victory in this legendary campaign was built upon the remarkable resurrection of our truncated interwar army, an overhaul that produced the effective commanders crucial to Gl success in beating back the Ardennes counteroffensive launched by Hitler's forces. Winton's is the first study of the Bulge to examine leadership at the largely neglected level of corps command. Focusing on the decisions and actions of Six army corps commanders-Leonard Gerow, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgway, John Millikin, Manton Eddy, and J. Lawton Collins— he re-creates their role in this epic struggle through a mosaic of narratives that take the commanders from the prewar training grounds of America to the crucible of war in the icy-cold killing fields of Belgium and Luxembourg.

ISBN: 9780700615087