Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of the Bulge (Stackpole Military History Series)

Before dawn on December 16, 1944, German forces rolled through the icy Ardennes in their last major offensive on the Western Front. Catching the Allies--predominantly Americans, in what they believed was a quiet sector--by surprise, the Germans made early gains, but Allied counterattacks combined with German fuel shortages and mounting casualties to force the German Army into a retreat from which it never recovered.