Definitive means exhaustive and authoritative, and that usually corresponds to boring.īut Anthony Beevor’s book Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge, is anything but boring. Now, whenever someone says the phrase “definitive history” in my presence, I’m immediately assaulted by a sense of utter ennui.
Now, for those who’ve been following this blog over the years, WWII means film and excerpts from Stacy Danielle Stephens’ excellent novel-in-progress, but today we turn to a nonfiction book that aims to be the definitive record of the Battle of the Bulge. The truth is more complicated, of course, so we return to WWII to have a look. I know I certainly didn’t know all that much about the details–to me it was always just about German Tiger tanks in a snowy forest demolishing numerically superior allied forces. It might not be up there with the D-Day landings, The invasion of Poland, the Siege of Stalingrad or the attack on Pearl Harbor, but it’s definitely in the second tier, and, like all the rest, many misconceptions about it survive. The Battle of the Bulge is one of the most legendary actions of WW2.
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