Inspiring books

Command Ops: Battles From The Bulge takes the highly acclaimed Airborne Assault engine back to the West Front for the crucial engagements during the Ardennes Offensive. Test your command skills in the fiery crucible of Airborne Assault’s “pausable continuous time” uber-realistic game engine. It's up to you to develop the strategy, issue the orders, set the pace, and try to win the laurels of victory in the cold, shadowy Ardennes.
Command Ops: Highway to the Reich brings us to the setting of one of the most epic and controversial battles of World War II: Operation Market-Garden, covering every major engagement along Hell’s Highway, from the surprise capture of Joe’s Bridge by the Irish Guards a week before the offensive to the final battles on “The Island” south of Arnhem.

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Hi,

Soon holiday is coming. Do you guys or girls have any suggestions on books about the subject? It works very well to read about the battle of the buldge and then start playing some scenarios.

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There was a thread about this a year or so ago which'd be a good place to start ... here. It gave me a few pointers for books.

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Also check out the Reference manual that comes with the game. It has a bibliography on page 209.
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Best book I read on the Bulge - to get a faint idea of what it was like other than at command level - is Seven Roads to Hell, by Donald S Burgett. He was with the 101st, at Bastogne. In alpha of 506, if I recall correctly. Great book. All his books are very engrossing reads, I think. You can get them all on amazon easily enough.

On the other hand, if you want a light summer read, that isn't really very light, then why not try a thriller - such as The Opposite of Mercy, by Tom Winship, also available on amazon. Nah, only joking, since that's actually my own latest effort, and it has nothing to do with the Bulge... Burgett is much better.
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Sorry, that should be Donald R Burgett.
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Thanks a lot! I ordered Hitlers last gamble.
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Some very detailed books available as free PDF downloads here -

http://www.history.army.mil/html/booksh ... 2-eto.html

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