"A comprehensive and vivid account of the heroic Defense of Bastogne...
His next book, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943, will be published by Dutton Caliber in July 2019..
His critically acclaimed books on World War II include Grunts, September Hope, and The Dead and Those About to Die.
Shifrin Chair of Naval and Military History.
Naval Academy as the Leo A.
S.
Military HiStory at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and is currently in residence at the U.
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He is the Curators\' Distinguished Professor of U.
Mc Manus is an award-winning professor, author, and military historian, and a leading expert on the hiStory of the American combat experience.
About the Author: John C.
Featuring numerous helpful maps and a complete list of the soldiers, local civilians, and German commanders whose actions it recounts, Alamo in the Ardennes provides a compelling, day-by-day account of this pivotal moment in America\'s greatest war.
It was their gallant efforts that allowed the 101st Airborne to reach and fully occupy Bastogne and prepare for the ferocious attack to come.
Outnumbered and outgunned, they Made the Germans pay for every icy inch of ground they gained.
This is the powerful yet little-known Story of the bloody delaying action fought by the 28th Infantry Division, elements of the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and other, smaller units.
But their heroics never could have happened if not for the unsung efforts of others.
Mc Manus has taken a great old Story and Made it new again."--Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of An Army at Dawn During the Battle of the Bulge, the 101st Airborne Made their legendary stand at Bastogne. "A comprehensive and vivid account of the heroic Defense of Bastogne..
