[jmacusa]

Read it, thank you. Another good source for accounts of combat in the ETO are books by Charles Whiting. The name of the book escapes me but it dealt with the Huertgen Forest battles. In my opinion, next to Montgomerys personal disaster “Operation “Market-Garden’’ the Huertgen was one of the most ill-concieved battles the US Army ever undertook. I don't see how it was that the entire Chiefs of Staff of the US Army weren't bought up on charges. Between the Huertgen Forest debacle and The Bulge Eisenhower got almost as many Americans killed as the Germans did.

[CougarGA7]

The Whiting book “The Battle of the Hurtgen Forest” is the one you are thinking of.

I absolutely agree with you on what a disaster the Huertgen Forest battles were. General Courtney Hodges should have, in my opinion, been relieved of his command for continuously sending in individual divisions to be ground up in that forest. When the Germans counter-attacked during the Ardennes Offensive, Hodges was so taken aback by forces cutting through his thin line on that part of the front that he took to his bed. It was his chief of staff, a General William Kean who gave out the initial orders to try and stop the flow of German troops.

Another good book which has a section that covers Huertgen and General Hodges failings there is “Patton’s Peers” by John English.