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The Battle of the Bulge /

By: Vansant, Wayne [author,, artist.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Zenith graphic histories.Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Zenith Press, 2014Description: 103 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780760346228 (sc); 0760346224 (sc).Subject(s): Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 -- Comic books, strips, etc | World War, 1939-1945 -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: War comics. | Nonfiction comics.DDC classification: 940.54/219348
Contents:
Watch on the Rhine -- Opening moves -- Breakthrough -- Battle Group Peiper -- The race for Bastogne -- The fog of war -- The fight for St. Vith -- Siege Bastogne -- Points of resistance -- High-water mark -- Death rattle.
Summary: Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions--fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II--saw action in this battle. Author and artist Wayne Vansant brings readers into the frozen foxholes, haunting forests, and devastated villages of the Ardennes during that freezing cold winter.
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Chiefly illustrations.

"A graphic history of allied victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945"--P. [1] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 102).

Watch on the Rhine -- Opening moves -- Breakthrough -- Battle Group Peiper -- The race for Bastogne -- The fog of war -- The fight for St. Vith -- Siege Bastogne -- Points of resistance -- High-water mark -- Death rattle.

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions--fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II--saw action in this battle. Author and artist Wayne Vansant brings readers into the frozen foxholes, haunting forests, and devastated villages of the Ardennes during that freezing cold winter.

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