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Title: A Blood-Dimmed Tide : The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It (Dell World War II Library) by GERALD ASTOR ISBN: 0-440-21574-9 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 03 December, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Crack of bullets and squeal of tank treads
Comment: Reading this book was a revelation. The descriptions of what it was like to lay in a shallow depression, hastily dug from frozen ground, while artillery tree-bursts flailed everything with white-hot shrapnel, were terrifying. Trying to picture myself in a foxhole with a Tiger tank boring in, as described by the author, made me wonder whether I could have dealt with the reality that was experienced by the American participants in the "Battle of the Bulge".
I've read several other books on the Battle of the Bulge that focused more on the strategic aspects of the battle, but this book, by far, helped me to better understand the gritty, frozen, deadly, reality faced by the heroic American soldiers. And let there be no doubt, they were heroes. I can only wonder: could todays generation exhibit this kind of singleminded devotion to turning back an inexorable tide under similar circumstances?
Rating: 4
Summary: Incredible!
Comment: Naturally, this book is an oral history of the Battle of the Bulge by the men who fought it. It follows them from induction into the Army; their training; to overseas; and then into battle. I was quite impressed by how unprepared the US troops were - I never realized that they were so thoroughly defeated (almost!).
The book describes in unbelievable detail in the words of the soldiers themselves the horror of war; the extreme cold; the hand to hand combat; the infiltration by the Germans into the American lines; being taken prisoner and its living conditions; and the turnaround where the US finally gained the upperhand in the battle.
The last chapter of the book regarding what they soldiers had learned and their reflections from today really bring the whole book together.
I recommend this book in conjunction with Peter Elstob's book, "Hitler's Last Offensive".
Rating: 4
Summary: Blood Dimmed Tide
Comment: Extremely readable! This is one of the best first hand accounts of World War II that I have read. Mr. Astor follows the stories of both American and German soldiers, officers and enlisted alike. One can really get a sense of what it must have been like to try to dig a trench in frozen ground and then of the sudden terror of a night attack. The reader can also get a sense of the complacency that had crept into the American army at the point in the war even after the terrible battle of the Huertgen Forest. But what really makes the stories interesting are the accounts of captivity in the German Stalags and the impressions of the Americans as they move behind German lines in the closing days of the war. This is not a "big picture" book, readers looking for strategical analysis should look elsewhere. There is also a lack of good maps, to get a sense of where you are reading about it. But overall a great read.
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Title: Seven Roads to Hell : A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236274 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Road to Arnhem : A Screaming Eagle in Holland by DONALD R. BURGETT ISBN: 0440236339 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Currahee! : A Screaming Eagle at Normandy by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236304 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: If You Survive by George Wilson ISBN: 0804100039 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Beyond the Rhine : A Screaming Eagle in Germany by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236363 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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