The massive German counteroffensive operation codenamed Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) was launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944. To most Americans, the fierce combat that raged across the Belgian countryside from December 1944 through January 1945 is best known as the Battle of the Bulge. Almost one million soldiers would eventually take part in the fighting. Voices of the Bulge is told through numerous first-person accounts taken from the authors' interviews of American officers and enlisted personnel who successfully repelled the German attack with their courage and blood. German veterans, including S soldiers, were also interviewed by the authors after decades of silence. They give eyewitness accounts of the massive German buildup and onslaught that threatened to turn the tide of the battle in Western Europe and made it one of the most crucial battles in the history of the free world. This incredibly rare and complete perspective of events gives Voices of the Bulge a unique place among histories of this crucial campaign.