A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945
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A victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost
unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home
ground, in some of the most rugged country in western Germany--and
at the beginning of the worst fall and winter weather in decades.
In late 1944, American forces advanced into the hilly, heavily
wooded Hurtgen Forest southeast of Aachen, Germany. For weeks,
without a clear-cut reason for attacking through the forest, U.S.
commanders nevertheless ordered units of as many as seven divisions
into the woods to be chewed up by German infantry and artillery.
Small units, cut off by the rugged terrain and trees, unable to
employ tanks or artillery effectively, fought entrenched and
camouflaged Germans in the woods and villages of the region. The
troops were exposed to rain, sleet, and freezing temperatures
without proper winter clothing. Many companies suffered huge
numbers of casualties. The Battle of the Bulge interrupted the
Hurtgen Forest battles but did not end them. The Bulge provided a
hiatus for the wartorn countryside around the forest and the Roer
River dams. Then, beginning in January, 1945, American forces
resumed their offensive and were finally able to break through
after one of the bloodiest and, for the U.S. Army, most disastrous
campaigns of World War II. For many years after the war the full
extent of the disaster was not well known outside army circles.
Eventually the story of the campaign spread, but it remained
overshadowed by the fame of the Bulge. Only in the last decade have
military historians begun to look at the fighting in the Hurtgen
Forest. The book examines uncertainty of command at the army,
corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of
ground combat at the level of company and battalion--where they do
the dying. Its 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. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account
of small-unit action set against the background of the larger
command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W.
Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.
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