“The author has devoted years to studying
memoirs, interviewing veterans, and consulting military documents, both German
and American. He also has revisited the old battlefields in Belgium and
Luxembourg…Toland has told the whole story with dramatic realism…It is a story
of panic, terror, and of high-hearted courage.”

“The perspective of fifteen years, painstaking research,
thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative
talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas…Toland
writes with the authority of a man who was there…He tastes the bitterness of
defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes
and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line…If you could
read only one book to understand generals and GIs and what their different wars
were like, this is the book.”

“For the first time in the growing literature of World War
II, the inspiring story of the stubborn, lonely, dogged battle of the Americans
locked in this tragic salient is told…Gripping…You cannot put it down once you
start it.”

“With sharp reporting of small skirmishes, of acts of bravery, of human cruelty and kindness on all sides, official talks and command indecision, Nazi scheming and Allied confusion, Toland details—in almost journal form—the many diverse, seemingly unrelated events which comprised the Battle of the Bulge…Well written and well paced.”