Dark December
Subtitle: The Full Account Of The Battle Of The Bulge
Publisher: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co.
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
Table of contents: title: Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge.; title: Contents; title: I. Wacht am Rhein: The German Plan; title: Prelude 1; title: An Idea Is Born 3; title: Whither Now 4; title: The Finger Points 10; title: A Fateful Day 11; title: On Pain of Death 15; title: The Generals 19; title: Crucial October 25; title: Counterproposals 27; title: Operation "Confusion" — The Special Brigades 30; title: November Takes Its Course 34; title: A Slight Double Cross 37; title: A Final Conference 40; title: Hitler Is Ready 42; title: Hitler's Last Advice 45; title: II. Eisenhower's Great Decision; title: The Allied Dilemma 49; title: The Breakout 50; title: The Chase 53; title: Where Are Our Supplies? 56; title: The Decision 60; title: The Calm 65; title: November Offensive 68; title: The Dam Attack 70; title: The Die Is Cast 72; title: III. All Quiet; title: Settling Down 74; title: It Can't Happen Here 82; title: Six And Six Are Thirteen 86; title: The Optimists Club 93; title: What Went Wrong? 98; title: IV. The Penetration; title: Not A Creature Was Stirring 103; title: Those First Two Days 106; title: What's Going On Here? 115; title: Let No Man Split Asunder 120; title: The War Of Nerves 126; title: V. The Crisis (December 18-26); title: Americans Are Aroused 136; title: Formation of the Ambleve River Line 138; title: The St. Vith Salient 149; title: First Army Attempts To Plug The Gap 159; title: Bastogne 174; title: The Southern Flank — Third Army Attacks 184; title: The Meuse River Line 187; title: VI, The Dying Gasp (December 26-January 16); title: The Crisis Is Ended 190; title: Hitler Hesitates 194; title: The Attack On Bastogne 196; title: First Army Regroups 198; title: The Germans Take An Inventory 202; title: We Attack In Force 205; title: Alles Kaput 207; title: VII. An Inventory; title: Damages Assessed 210; title: German Genius Grieves 214; title: Old Soldiers Never Die 218; title: Myths Of The Ardennes 220; title: Was It A Dark December? 231; title: I Appendix; title: i Supreme Headquarters Expeditionary Force 235; title: I Army Group B (German) 236