GHOST FRONT

Author: Charles Whiting

Publisher: Da Capo

Year published: 2002

Pagination: 219pp, 23 b/w photos, maps

Condition: Very good plus in like dustjacket

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Much has been written about the Battle of the Bulge - Hitler's great counterstrike in the Ardennes in December, 1944. How were the Germans able to amass such huge strategic reserves opposite the Allied front in total secrecy? The US had placed its greenest & most combat weary units on this quiet, so-called 'Ghost Front', but in the trees just a few miles away were massed two full panzer armies & 300,000 assault troops. Whiting fills this crucial gap in the story & describes how the US Army was forced into its greatest crisis of WWII