Miscellaneous

General ResourcesPaintingsGeneral ResourcesEducator's MaterialsForeign LanguageGamingOther

General Resources

A Brief History of the U.S. Army in World War II by the U.S. Army Center for Military History. This is a good short history from an authoritative source, originally published on the Center's site, but reformatted and improved by WorldWarIIHistory.info.

"The United States Army in World War II" by Rich Anderson. A lucid explanation of organization structures and terminology.

Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Amazon. World War II for Dummies by Keith D. Dickson. I know, I know… It's actually a pretty good introduction.

Reader's Companion to Military History: World War Two. Excellent short summary by John Toland, from this useful online book.

Paintings

Ardennes Offensive by Nicolas Trudgian. Available on Brooks Art. Painting is signed by two Fw190 pilots, Helmut Bennemann, Siegfried Muller and two panzer commanders; Hans Lutz and Eberhard Stephan.

"Kampfgruppe Peiper" by David Pentland. Peiper was one of the accused and sentenced German officers for the war crimes against the Americans during the Battle of the Bulge.

"Battle of the Bulge" cartoon, by Willy Vassaux.

Educator's Materials

Teacher's guide to PBS/American Experience Battle of the Bulge. Grade-level not specified.

Foreign Language

German Wikipedia: Ardennes Offensive ("Ardennenoffensive"). Meaty.

French Wikipedia: Ardennes Offensive ("Bataille des Ardennes")

Short summary from Shoa.de, a German Holocaust site.

Dutch Wikipedia: Ardennes Offensive ("Ardennenoffensief"). Pretty meaty. No translation. (See also Walon.)

Gaming

Someday I'll actually make a section on this. Too much, and not my bag.

Amazon. Close Combat 4: The Battle of the Bulge from UBISoft (Windows 95+)

Apparently UBISoft has given up on this game—the only thing on their website is a patch. But they'll still allow it to be sold on Amazon.…

Operation 'Greif': The Battle for Malmedy scenario for Crossfire.

Other

Amazon. Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios by Peter Tsouras.

"Based on a series of fascinating "What ifs" posed by leading military historians, this intriguing new alternate history recontructs the moments during the Battle of the Bulge which could conceivably have altered the entire course of the Second World War and led to a German victory."

According to this article on the new WWII monument in Washington, D.C. Of graduates of the top US collges and universities, only 37% can identify what war the Battle of the Bulge belonged to. From "Not yet forgotten, the 'greatest generation' finally set in stone" by Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor (May 2004)

Sourveniers from the Bulge from Mark Bando's website. Other WWII souveniers linked at bottom.

Battle of the Bulge reenactment photos taken at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA, in 2001.