The unknown dead : civilians in the Battle of the Bulge / Peter Schrijvers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrijvers, Peter, 1963-

Standardized Title:

Wreed als ijs. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Belgium.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Luxembourg.

Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian.

Civilian war casualties--Belgium.

Civilian war casualties.

Civilian war casualties--Luxembourg.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops. Conspicuously lacking in most accounts, however, are references to the civilians in Belgium and Luxembourg who lost their lives in the same battle. Yet the most reliable current estimates calculate the number of civilians who perished in the Ardennes in six weeks of fighting at approximately three thousand. In gruesome detail, The Unknown Dead tells the story of ordinary people caught up in the maelstrom of war. Renowned historian

Contents:

The northern shoulder

The Peiper breakthrough

Closing in on St. Vith

The race for Bastogne

The Houffalize corridor

The southern shoulder

The fall of St. Vith

The siege of Bastogne

Between the Salm and the Ourthe

Between the Ourthe and the Meuse

Counterattack from the south

Lifting the siege of Bastogne

Eliminating the bulge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613233035

9780813134826

081313482X

9781283233033

1283233037

9780813172088

081317208X

OCLC:

67764425