A Time for Trumpets

<p>On December 16 1944 the vanguard of three German armies totaling half a million men attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg achieveing what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army 600000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war.</p><p>The brutal confrontation that ensued became known as the Battle of the Bulge the greatest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army -- a triumph of American ingenuity and dedication over an egregious failure in strategic intelligence. <em>A Time for Trumpets</em> is the definitive account of this dramatic victory told by one of America's most respected military historians who was also an eyewitness: MacDonald commanded a rifle company in the Battle of the Bulge. His account of this unique battle is exhaustively researched honestly recounted and movingly authentic in its depiction of hand-to-hand combat.</p><p>Mingling firsthand experience with the insights of a distinguished historian MacDonald places this profound human drama unforgettably on the landscape of history.</p>