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Title: Battle of the Bulge

Subtitle: Hitlers Alternate Scenarios

Author: Peter G. Tsouras - editor

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Leading specialists in the field look at alternate outcomes of the Battle of the Bulge.

On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched a massive surprise attack on the Allies: the Battle of the Bulge had begun. Planned by the Germans with the utmost secrecy, the battle was one of the largest and bloodiest fought by the United States in World War II. Near complete surprise crippled the Allied line early on, but fierce resistance and massive air attacks ultimately gave Allied forces the edge, sealed the failure of the offensive, and left German forces severely depleted.

Had Hitler's gambit succeeded, a German victory in the war would have certainly been possible, if not likely. Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios explores this idea through pieces by several leading experts in the field that reveal exactly how history could have been dramatically altered.

What if the Germans had successfully prevented Patton from riding to the rescue at Bastogne? Or if the Allies had suffered a major setback at the Battle of the Bulge, allowing the Red Army to overrun Berlin and drive on to the Rhine? What if Hitler had progressed with the operations plan they'd had prior to the Bulge? These are some of the intriguing scenarios played out by the leading authors featured in Battle of the Bulge, edited by renowned alternate historian Peter G. Tsouras.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

i like alternative history books.

Ten What If Incidents

An alternative history of a different kind. Ten incidents during World War II are analyzed from a What If standpoint. For instance:

What If Montgomery had made some very minor changes in the organization and training of his troops for D-Day. Could he have captured Caen on the first day? If he had, what would have been the impact?

What If the Canadians had gotten to Falaise to meet Patton and truly close the Falaise gap before the great part of the German support troops and enough fighting formations got out to form the basis for the units that manned the defense of the Rhine and handled the Battle of the Bulge?

After Falaise, Patton appealed to Eisenhower to give him enough fuel for a quick and narrow thrust into Germany. Suppose he had gotten them and sent a spearhead around Metz and crossed the Rhine.

Montgomery proposed the same thing, but of course up North, Operation Market Garden to Arnhem. It failed of course because the releiving forces didn't get there in time. But What If they had.

Ten incidents, they didn't happen, but they could have.

Unmentioned 'What Ifs?'

For the purpose of his Chapter 10: Ardennes Disaster, Mr Tsouras conveniently ignores the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which had been adopted in 1933 and states, in part: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January... If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.

This is a pretty huge hole.

I'm not going to spoil a fun read, but if Tsouras had included a part where Santa Clause takes a time machine into the Jurassic Age to get a dinosaur to help the Allies defeat Hitler, he would be standing on no less firm scholarly ground than he does with Chapter 10 as it is presently written.