John C. McManusis an award-winning professor, author, and military historian, and a leading expert on the history of the American combat experience. He is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of U.S. Military History at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and is currently in residence at the U.S. Naval Academy as the Leo A. Shifrin Chair of Naval and Military History. His critically acclaimed books on World War II includeGrunts,September Hope, andThe Dead and Those About to Die. His next book,Fire and Fortitude- The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943, will be published by Dutton Caliber in July 2019.
“A comprehensive and vivid account of the heroic defense of
Bastogne, the linchpin in the Battle of the Bulge. With a scholar’s
precision and a writer’s keen eye for the telling detail, John C.
McManus has taken a great old story and made it new again.”—Rick
Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of An Army at Dawn
“McManus's absorbing and forthright narrative will hopefully dispel
several myths, namely that Bastogne was the decisive engagement of
the Battle of the Bulge, and give long-overdue credit to the many
brave Americans, some of them still alive today, who made victory
possible in America's greatest ever battle. You can't ask for more.
Bravo!”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times Bestselling Author of The
Longest Winter and Avenue of Spies
“I have read hundreds of books about men in battle but seldom have
I seen one that comes close to the intensity that John McManus
achieves in Alamo in the Ardennes. To an unparalleled degree, his
amazing research has enabled him to get inside the minds and hearts
of dozens of soldiers, from generals to privates. This is a book
that will become one of the classics of the literature of World War
II combat.”—Thomas Fleming, Author of The New Dealers' War
“This definitive and eminently readable history is destined to be a
classic among Bulge histories.”—Patrick K. O'Donnell, Author of
Washington’s Immortals
"A comprehensive and vivid account of the heroic defense of
Bastogne, the linchpin in the Battle of the Bulge. With a scholar's
precision and a writer's keen eye for the telling detail, John C.
McManus has taken a great old story and made it new again."-Rick
Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of An Army at Dawn
"McManus's absorbing and forthright narrative will hopefully dispel
several myths, namely that Bastogne was the decisive engagement of
the Battle of the Bulge, and give long-overdue credit to the many
brave Americans, some of them still alive today, who made victory
possible in America's greatest ever battle. You can't ask for more.
Bravo!"-Alex Kershaw, New York Times Bestselling Author
of The Longest Winter and Avenue of Spies
"I have read hundreds of books about men in battle but seldom have
I seen one that comes close to the intensity that John McManus
achieves in Alamo in the Ardennes. To an unparalleled degree, his
amazing research has enabled him to get inside the minds and hearts
of dozens of soldiers, from generals to privates. This is a book
that will become one of the classics of the literature of World War
II combat."-Thomas Fleming, Author of The New Dealers'
War
"This definitive and eminently readable history is destined to be a
classic among Bulge histories."-Patrick K. O'Donnell, Author of
Washington's Immortals
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