TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface xi 1 The Two "Greatest Bluffs in History" 1 2 The Preparation and Build Up 5 3 The Staff — Headquarters Third U. S. Army 14 4 Across the Beaches 23 5 The Breakthrough 30 6 Across France — The Bomb Explodes 41 7 The Falaise Pocket 52 8 Paris Falls 64 9 Stopped, But Not by the Germans 78 10 Line of the Moselle 94 11 Capture of Metz and the Saar Valley 1 16 12 Battle of the Bulge 137 13 The Eifel Hills to the Rhine Capture of Coblenz and Saar Basin 165 14 Forcing the Rhine and Across Germany — Entering Czechoslovakia and Austria 180 15 Patton — The Man 196 APPENDICES I Chronological Record of Events 215 II Third Army Units and Commanders 220 III The Bastogne Surrender Ultimatum and Reply 221 IV A Typical Casualty Report from the Third Army 223 V General Order No. 1, 1 January 1945 226 VI Commendation, 26 January 1945 227 VII The Christmas Message and Prayer Sent the Third Army, 1944 228 MAPS Operation COBRA — The Breakthrough 31 The Bomb Explodes 43 The Falaise Pocket 53 Paris Falls 66 Paris Past the Moselle 79 The Line of the Moselle 96 Capture of Metz and the Saar Valley 123 The Battle of the Bulge 143 Eifel Hills to the Rhine 169 Across the Rhine to Victory 187 From England to Victory 208 Digitized by Google.

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