The battle that ensued is known historically ... and split the Allied armies as they had done in May 1940, the Germans struck in the Ardennes Forest, a 75-mile stretch of the front characterized ...

With Ardennes 1944, Beevor gives us a concise and powerful narrative of the biggest, bloodiest and most desperate battle of the war ... won the World Series in 1940?’ he was asked.

The battle is remembered as “hell on Earth.” On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet, thinly defended Ardennes ... of the stunning 1940 German drive ...

The attack plan would hit the Americans in the Ardennes, considered a weak spot and the route used for the wildly successful 1940 Invasion ... in what became “Battle of the Bulge.” ...