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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5421431 EAN: 9780060921965 ISBN: 006092196X Label: Perennial (HarperCollins) Manufacturer: Perennial (HarperCollins) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: 1995-11 Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins) Studio: Perennial (HarperCollins) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The definitive account of the Battle of the Bulge victory over Adolf Hitler, featuring maps and photographs, and written by a team headed by eminent military historian Trevor Dupuy. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - I Find Little to Disagree with in every one of the Reader Reviews of This BookIt seems that here a few readers have aptly beaten me to the punch; in every review so many words seem taken right out of my mouth. E.g. JW puts it best when he points out that Hitler's Last Gamble is the literal byproduct of a staggeringly detailed Army study of the Battle of the Bulge, and it shows; ultimately, the work much more accurately characterized as far more a compilation of numbers to be crunched and minute data to be logged than a work of history. Indeed, on practically every page the ... Read More Rating:  - Recognizes the Polish Success in Cracking the German CodeAlthough this book is about the Battle of the Bulge, it also presents other war-related factual information that few readers are likely to know about. Specifically, (pp. 372-373) it calls attention to the fact that it was Polish mathematicians who cracked the German "Enigma" code. Dupuy also correctly points out that no other Allied nation had come close to cracking it. Rating: - It takes a labor of love to finish reading this book.I love to read nearly anything and everything I can find about WW2 history. This was one of those rare instances, however, where I picked up a book, read about half of it, then put it back down never to finish it. I just couldn't force myself to read any more. Although the Battle of the Bulge is without a doubt one of the more interesting episodes of the war, and Dupuy provides a detailed account, in my opinion he's just a little too detailed. This book is written for someone who has ... Read More Rating: - Interested in the Bulge? Read this book later..but read it.Research is the strength of this work, not the telling of a major battle. It is difficult for the reader to grasp the overall view of this clash as it is layered over with detail upon detail. From mass movements to small skirmishes, it is told in the driest of writing style. The usual complaint levied against military books, inadequate maps, can not be claimed here. The maps are numerous and like the work itself, detailed. As a reference tool the book is invaluable and for this it merits the rating ... Read More Rating: - You either LOVE or HATE this book.This is a tricky book. The author(s)apparently know what they are talking about with regard to the battle of the bulge. However, it is written in a pretty dry and boring manner, almost, like another reviewer stated, seeming to be written as a college paper that is trying to get "all the facts" in. The detail is terrific, and probably important, for the military historian reader interested in what battalion was where, or what company commander did what, or which army advanced here or there, or withdrew ... Read More 
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