Loss and Redemption at St. Vith The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge / Gregory Fontenot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontenot, Gregory, 1949- author.

Series:

American military experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

World War, 1939-1945.

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

Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.

Germany. Heer--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Germany.

United States. Army. Armored Division, 7th--History.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Loss and Redemption at St. Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge give short-shrift to the interval during which the German forward progress stopped and the American counterattack began. This narrative centers on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division and accounting for the reconstitution of the Division while in combat."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Lucky Seventh goes to war

Silesia is defended in the West

The eve of battle

The golden lions at bay

The Lucky 7th goes to St. Vith

A thin olive drab line

Stand at St. Vith

Crisis at St. Vith

Decision at St. Vith

They come back with all honor

Reversal and reconstitution

Redemption at St. Vith

Epilogue: after the battle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826274359

0826274358

OCLC:

1104919820