Battle Of The Bulge Through The Lens
by Philip Vorwald /
2000 / English / PDF
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In this work, The author retraces the fields of the battle in
Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany which were once bitterly contested
killing grounds in the struggle to halt Hitler's final gambit in
the West. The battle touched dozens of towns and villages
throughout the Ardennes and each is depicted through the
photographer's lens in 1944-45 and exactly 50 years later. Vorwald
manages to precisely match the wartime photographs with present-day
comparisons, and has striven in many cases to achieve a "weather
match". Presented in an easy-to-use alphabetical format, the
precise location where each picture was taken is indicated on
accompanying sketch maps, with instructions on how to get there,
giving this publication a secondary role as a useful guide book to
historic sites of the Battle of the Bulge.
In this work, The author retraces the fields of the battle in
Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany which were once bitterly contested
killing grounds in the struggle to halt Hitler's final gambit in
the West. The battle touched dozens of towns and villages
throughout the Ardennes and each is depicted through the
photographer's lens in 1944-45 and exactly 50 years later. Vorwald
manages to precisely match the wartime photographs with present-day
comparisons, and has striven in many cases to achieve a "weather
match". Presented in an easy-to-use alphabetical format, the
precise location where each picture was taken is indicated on
accompanying sketch maps, with instructions on how to get there,
giving this publication a secondary role as a useful guide book to
historic sites of the Battle of the Bulge.