REICH LAST GAMBLE

Get the whole story of the last gamble by the Third Reich to win back control of the war on the Western Front. The Battle of the Bulge, as the surprise German counteroffensive came to be known, ended in defeat in just four weeks. The Germans' goals_to divide the Allied forces, halt their drive from Normandy to the Rhine, and to force a peace settlement_were unmet, although the battle started effectively when weather kept Allied aircraft on the ground. Forty records how the GIs, many of them young and untested, faced up to the unexpected challenge. Hdbd., 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 352 pgs., 68 b&w ill.