by Hugh M. Cole U.S. Army Center of Military History
Forward and Preface
The Origins
Planning the Counteroffensive Details of the Plan
Troops and Terrain & The Order of Battle
Preperations
The Sixth Army Panzer Army Attack
The German Northern Shoulder is Jammed
Breakthrough at the Schnee Eifel
The Fifth Panzer Army Attacks the 28th Infantry Division
Attack by German Left Wing
The German Southern Shoulder is Jammed
The 1st SS Panzer Division's Dash Westward, and Operation Grief
The First Attacks at St.Vith
VIII Corps Attempts to Delay the Enemy
The VIII Corps Barrier Lines
The German Salient Expands
The Threat Subsides; ANother Emerges
St. Vith is Lost
The VII Corps Moves to Blunt the Salient
The Battle of Bastogne
The XII Corps Attacks the Southern Shoulder & the End of the Defensive Battle, 22 December
The III Corps' Counterattack Toward Bastogne
The Battle Before the Meuse
The Battle Between the Salm and the Our: 24 December-2 January
The Third Army Offensive Widening the Bastogne Corridor
Epilogue
