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Howard, Michael
Tiger Spearhead
"Wacht am Rhein", codename for the extremely daring and ambitious German counter- that shattered the Belgian winter of 1944. Churchill would later call it the "Battle of the Bulge".
Although driven back to the borders of their Fatherland by the victorious Allies, the German soldier was far from defeated. Badly mauled in the charnel house of the Eastern Front and having suffered severe reversals in Normandy and in the retreat through France, they remained a deadly fighting force.
Such was Hitler's faith in his vaunted Panzerkorps that he now rested his hopes on an all-or-nothing masterstroke that would sweep the Allies back to the beaches. Two Panzer Armies, von Manteuffel's 5th and Sepp Deitrich's 6th SS Panzer Army, together with Brandenberger's 7th Army in the south, would thrust through the hostile winter terrain of the Ardennes and drive for the all important supply port of Antwerp.
Directly opposing them was the US VIII Corps stretched along an eighty-mile front and only lightly held by inexperienced and badly decimated divisions shattered in the brutal battles for Aachen and the Hurtgen Forest. The 6th SS Panzer Army in the vanguard struck through the Losheim Gap on 0-Tag, December 16, and slammed into the stunned US forces.
Includes free companion print.
Print size: 33 ½"w X 24 ¾"h
Limited edition of: 750 signed and numbered
