Short Synopsis
At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge. Alamo in the Ardennes provides a compelling, day-by-day account of this pivotal moment in America's greatest war.

Full Synopsis
At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge—the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered ten to one, slowed the German advance and allowed the Belgian town of Bastogne to be reinforced. Alamo in the Ardennes provides a compelling, day-by-day account of this pivotal moment in America's greatest war.

"Will become one of the classics of the literature of World War II combat." ---Thomas Fleming, author of The New Dealers' War

"Comprehensive and vivid . . . John C. McManus has taken a great old story and made it new again." ---Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn