Those Who Hold Bastogne, Peter Schrijvers
Those Who Hold Bastogne, Peter Schrijvers
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Those Who Hold Bastogne
The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge

Author: Peter Schrijvers

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/06/2015

Synopsis

Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded and almost certainly would have were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious American defenders, who held back a tenfold larger German force while awaiting the arrival of General George Patton's mighty Third Army.



In this dramatic account of the 1944–45 winter of war in Bastogne, historian Peter Schrijvers offers the first full story of the German assault on the strategically located town. From the December stampede of American and Panzer divisions racing to reach Bastogne first, through the bloody eight-day siege from land and air, and through three more weeks of unrelenting fighting even after the siege was broken, events at Bastogne hastened the long-awaited end of WWII. Schrijvers draws on diaries, memoirs, and other fresh sources to illuminate the experiences not only of Bastogne's three thousand citizens and their American defenders, but also of German soldiers and commanders desperate for victory.

About Peter Schrijvers

Peter Schrijvers studied U.S. military and diplomatic history at Ohio State University in Columbus and is currently a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Peter is the author of five books on World War II. A native of Belgium, he has spent several decades researching the American, German, and Belgian dimensions of the battle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on October 13, 2015

Comprehensive and readable account of this key battle. In this detailed account Peter Schrijvers covers the period of December 1944 to January 1945, when Bastogne became the key to the success or failure of the battle commonly known as “The Battle of the Bulge”. His research is impeccable and whilst h......more

Goodreads review by Amber on August 13, 2023

An important read on an important battle.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 19, 2024

Those Who Hold Bastogne is fine military history that will satisfy both war buffs and serious historians, without pushing forward the edges of scholarship in a substantial way. This is no fault of the author, The Battle the Bulge is one of the more covered events in a very thoroughly covered war. Sc......more

Goodreads review by Harry on January 25, 2015

"Those Who Hold Bastogne" was not an easy read, but was nevertheless fascinating. I was first drawn to the tale, sensing some more background on the famous "NUTS" anecdote of General McAuliffe and the doomed 101st Airborne inside Bastogne during the Battle of The Bulge in 1944. But in this comprehensi......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on December 05, 2014

(Tantor Audio) John Lee boldly delivers narration of Peter Schrijvers’ "Those Who Hold Bastogne" expertly giving voice and personality to the many nationalities that meet their rescue or death in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge. War holds its stark, horrid brutalities, and in the voices of the allie......more

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