His account of this unique battle is exhaustively researched, honestly recounted, and movingly authentic in its depiction of hand-to-hand combat. A Time for Trumpets is the definitive account of this dramatic victory, told by one of America's most respected military historians, who was also an eyewitness: MacDonald commanded a rifle company in the Battle of the Bulge. Army - a triumph of American ingenuity and dedication over an egregious failure in strategic intelligence. The brutal confrontation that ensued became known as the Battle of the Bulge, the greatest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieveing what had been considered impossible - total surprise.

On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S.

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