A Dark and Bloody Ground examines the ominous prelude to the 
Battle of the Bulge and reveals for the first time one of the U.S. 
Army’s bloodiest nightmares of World War II.

    In late 1944, the American Army had pushed through Belgium 
almost unopposed. As small units advanced into the hilly woods 
southeast of Aachen, Germany, they encountered a forest bristling 
with German troops.

    The face-off took place in some of Germany’s most rugged 
territory and in rain, sleet, and freezing temperatures. For weeks 
U.S. commanders ordered units of as many as seven divisions into 
the woods to be chewed up by German infantry and artillery.
 
    The book’s gripping description of the battle is based on 
government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from 
veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller’s visits to the 
battlefield.

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EDWARD G. MILLER is an active-duty army ordnance officer 
who lives in Frederick, Maryland.


Number Forty-two: Texas A&M University Military History 
Series


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