Generals of the Bulge

Jerry D. Morelock, a graduate of West Point, spent thirty-six years in the U.S. Army, including decorated combat service in Vietnam, duty at the Pentagon, and the directorship of the Combat Studies Institute at the Command and General Staff College, where he also taught military history and served as editor in chief of the CGSC Press. Following retirement from active duty, Morelock was executive director of the Winston Churchill Memorial & Library. He holds a PhD from the University of Kansas and has also written Great Land Battles from the Civil War to the Gulf War. He lives in Fulton, Missouri. Carlos d'Este is the author of Eisenhower and Decision in Normandy.

Jerry D. Morelock's Generals of the Bulge is a fine and useful addition to the enormous body of literature about the biggest battle in American military history. -- Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Liberation Trilogy This is great: One of the best books about the U.S. Army in World War II is revised, and made better. You can't understand the war without reading this. -- Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fiasco and The Generals This is a superb account of selected generals leading American forces during the Battle of the Bulge. Morelock explores the character and careers of these men and explains why some of them failed as leaders during the bitter fighting in the Ardennes while other succeeded. Cracking good history and a fascinating discussion of the extraordinary demands of leadership-when lives are on the line. -- John W. Mountcastle, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.), former Army Chief of Military History