***Brand New Book***

11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944

by Stanley Weintraub

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (Nov 7 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074328710X
• ISBN-13: 978-0743287104
• Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.6 x 2.6 cm

By December 1944, Nazi Germany seemed on the brink of disintegration. The Russians were rapidly advancing in the east, while the Americans and British, after a brief pause, were primed to thrust into Germany from the west. So the German counterattack through the Ardennes was a complete surprise and, initially, a great success. Ultimately, however, the Germans failed to split the Allied armies and drive to the sea. Still, Weintraub has written a compact, fast-moving account of those critical days that largely glosses over the military technicalities to focus upon the individual experiences of ordinary soldiers. At the center of the narrative is George Patton, hardly an ordinary soldier. As one would expect, Weintraub shows Patton as brash, brilliant, and profane. Patton's part prayer, part challenge to God to provide clear weather for Allied air attacks is recounted memorably here. But Weintraub's use of the letters and diaries of "lesser" soldiers enlivens his account and makes this a particularly poignant saga of men in war.

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