"The quantity and quality of the photos cannot be denied, nor
equaled." -- The NYMAS Review
Nine days before Christmas 1944 Hitler played Germany's last card on
which he staked everything to turn the tables in the West. This is the
first time that an attempt has been made to cover the entire salient in
order to present the battle in our familiar 'then and now' format.
Hundreds of miles have been traveled by the author throughout every
corner of the battlefield to search out the scenes of past events --
every known photograph belonging to combatants, civilians, and in public
collections and private sources has been sought or considered. all the
cine film has been examined frame by frame and certain sequences
illustrated and analyzed. In this way a number of classic pictures
almost always used -- or misused -- in depicting the Ardennes battle are
not only placed in their context in the German advance but are also
shown to be not always quite what they seem!