Niedermayer, Battle of the Bulge, WW2, 1stEd. Signed
"Into the Deep Misty Woods of the Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge in All Its Fury and SS-Terror!" by Walter Niedermayer, published by A.G. Halldin Publishing Company, PA, 1990, First Edition signed by the author on the title page.
Soft cover, author's signature on top of the title page, 170 pages including Endnotes, Index, Bibliography, and Sources, very good near fine condition.
Walter Niedermayer (1912-1996) entered the army in January 1943. After completing his training in May 1944, he joined the 99th Infantry Division and stayed with the division until the end of the war (May 1945). He served as a machine gun platoon leader, mortar platoon leader, and rifle platoon leader. His decorations include the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He also participated in the Korean War. He retired from the army in March 1965 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He earned a Master Degree in History specializing on WWII.
Early on the misty winter morning of Dec. 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes. Seeking to drive to the coast of the English Channel 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 by dense woods and few roads, held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning.
After a day of hard fighting, the Germans broke through the American front, surrounding most of an infantry division, seizing key crossroads, and advancing their spearheads toward the Meuse River, creating the projection that gave the battle its name.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower rushed reinforcements to hold the shoulders of the German penetration. Within days, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton had turned his Third U.S. Army to the north and was counterattacking against the German flank. But the story of the Battle of the Bulge is above all the story of American Soldiers. Often isolated and unaware of the overall picture, they did their part to slow the Nazi advance, whether by delaying armored spearheads with obstinate defenses of vital crossroads, moving or burning critical gasoline stocks to keep them from the fuel-hungry German tanks, or coming up with questions on arcane Americana to stump possible Nazi infiltrators.
An admiring British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill stated, "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." [info: U.S. Army Center of Military History].
Niedermayer's book is the best researched study of the Battle of the Bulge providing an abundance of detailed information. In addition to the published sources, the author used unpublished reports, documents and manuscripts preserved in the libraries and military archives. All these documents are listed in the Bibliography, some of them are published in the Appendix. Despite being a serious historical study, the book is an easy read like an adventure novel.
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"Into the Deep Misty Woods of the Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge in All Its Fury and SS-Terror!" by Walter Niedermayer, published by A.G. Halldin Publishing Company, PA, 1990, First Edition signed by the author on the title page.
Soft cover, author's signature on top of the title page, 170 pages including Endnotes, Index, Bibliography, and Sources, very good near fine condition.
Walter Niedermayer (1912-1996) entered the army in January 1943. After completing his training in May 1944, he joined the 99th Infantry Division and stayed with the division until the end of the war (May 1945). He served as a machine gun platoon leader, mortar platoon leader, and rifle platoon leader. His decorations include the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He also participated in the Korean War. He retired from the army in March 1965 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He earned a Master Degree in History specializing on WWII.
Early on the misty winter morning of Dec. 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes. Seeking to drive to the coast of the English Channel 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 by dense woods and few roads, held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning.
After a day of hard fighting, the Germans broke through the American front, surrounding most of an infantry division, seizing key crossroads, and advancing their spearheads toward the Meuse River, creating the projection that gave the battle its name.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower rushed reinforcements to hold the shoulders of the German penetration. Within days, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton had turned his Third U.S. Army to the north and was counterattacking against the German flank. But the story of the Battle of the Bulge is above all the story of American Soldiers. Often isolated and unaware of the overall picture, they did their part to slow the Nazi advance, whether by delaying armored spearheads with obstinate defenses of vital crossroads, moving or burning critical gasoline stocks to keep them from the fuel-hungry German tanks, or coming up with questions on arcane Americana to stump possible Nazi infiltrators.
An admiring British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill stated, "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." [info: U.S. Army Center of Military History].
Niedermayer's book is the best researched study of the Battle of the Bulge providing an abundance of detailed information. In addition to the published sources, the author used unpublished reports, documents and manuscripts preserved in the libraries and military archives. All these documents are listed in the Bibliography, some of them are published in the Appendix. Despite being a serious historical study, the book is an easy read like an adventure novel.
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US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ----------- $9.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) --- $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $32.50
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