Generals of the Ardennes: American Leadership in the Battle of The Bulge Breeds and Willie Mays

and Willie Mays

offering new insight into the "thousand mercurial forms" and "inexact nature"

without a second thought

and an unexpected surprise that only raises more questions

Generals of the Ardennes: American Leadership in the Battle of The Bulge Breeds and Willie MaysGenerals of the Ardennes is not a conventional history of the Battle of the Bulge, but a study of US command leadership at different levels during that fiery December of 1944 when a German offensive against the center of the American lines threatened to split the massed Allied Armies. It shows how US commanders from Eisenhower himself down through Army Group, Army, Corps, and Division commanders met the heavy burdens of leadership in the crucible of