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1944年6月，近三百万盟军登陆诺曼底，成功开辟欧洲第二战场；9月，计划空降阿纳姆大桥的市场花园行动虽然失败，但西线德军已逐步陷入绝境。12月16日，希特勒发起了他的“最后一搏”——在比利时、德国、卢森堡三国交界处的阿登地区集中兵力发动反攻，以夺取盟军的主要补给港口安特卫普，并试图制造第二个“敦刻尔克撤退”。误以为德军再无力发动战略进攻的盟军被打得措手不及，部分士兵被德军的攻势击溃，或逃跑或投降，但更多的士兵英勇坚守，顽强抵抗，迟滞了德国人的进攻。在绝望和复仇的驱使下，再加上严酷的冬季气候，阿登战役的残酷堪比东线的斯大林格勒战役，盟军和德军均在此战中伤亡近十万人。英国著名军事历史学家安东尼·比弗以天为单位，极其细致地描述了这场最终压垮德国国防军的惨烈战役。
作者简介
安东尼·比弗，英国军事历史学家、皇家文学学会成员、伦敦大学伯贝克学院和肯特大学客座教授。他曾就读于桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院，1967年进入英国陆军第11轻骑兵团服役，1970年以中尉衔退役，此后开始写作。他的著作《斯大林格勒战役》曾获沃尔夫森奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖、霍桑顿文学奖，此外还有《诺曼底登陆》《阿纳姆战役》《第二次世界大战》《斯大林格勒战役》《柏林战役》等诸多二战题材的著作。因在历史和文学领域的杰出贡献，比弗在2014年被授予普利兹克军事博物馆和图书馆文学暨军事写作终身成就奖。
Content introduction
In June 1944, nearly three million Allied troops landed in Normandy, successfully opening the second front in Europe. In September, Operation Market Garden, planned to drop on Arnhem Bridge, failed, but the German forces in the West were increasingly cornered. On 16 December, Hitler launched his "last stand" - a counter-offensive focused on the Ardennes region, where Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg meet, to capture Antwerp, the main Allied supply port, and attempt to create a second "Dunkirk retreat". The Allies, who had mistakenly believed that the Germans were no longer able to mount a strategic offensive, were taken by surprise, and some soldiers were overwhelmed by the German offensive and either fled or surrendered, but many more soldiered bravely and resisted, delaying the German attack. Driven by desperation and revenge, coupled with the harsh winter weather, the Battle of the Ardennes was as brutal as the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front, in which both Allied and German troops suffered nearly 100,000 casualties. Antony Beevor, a leading British military historian, describes in extreme detail, day by day, the brutal battle that eventually overwhelmed the Wehrmacht.
About the author
Anthony Beavere is a British military historian, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Kent. He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served in the 11th Hussars in 1967, retiring as a lieutenant in 1970, after which he began to write. His book "Battle of Stalingrad" has won the Wolfson Prize, Samuel Johnson Prize, Hawthornton Literary Prize, in addition to "D-Day", "Battle of Arnhem", "World War II", "Battle of Stalingrad", "Battle of Berlin" and many other works on World War II. For his contributions to history and literature, Bever was awarded the Pritzker Museum and Library Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and Military Writing in 2014.
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