Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible
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Book details
- Author
- John C. McManus
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 330
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II
History › Military › United States - Topics
- Battle of the Bulge · World War II · American military history · German advance · wartime heroism
- ISBN-13
- 9781681620527 (Paperback)9780471739050 (Hardcover)
About the author
JOHN C. MCMANUS is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of U.S. Military History at Missouri University of Science and Technology and the author of more than thirteen books on American military history. His recent books include Fire and Fortitude, September Hope and The Dead and Those About to Die.
McManus is the recipient of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History. He holds a PhD in American and Military History from the University of Tennessee, where he served as Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society and was a Normandy Scholar.
When he’s not writing, McManus serves as official historian for the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Regiment and sits on the editorial advisory board of World War II magazine and World War II Quarterly.
John lives in St. Louis.