Deborah Hopkinson

In the dead of win­ter, deep in the For­est of Ardennes, as the dev­as­ta­tion of World War II drew to a close, a des­per­ate Nazi army launch­es a sur­prise attack on Allied forces in the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Decem­ber 16th.

As the ground is blown apart by mor­tar shells and an end­less cur­tain of bul­lets rains down upon them, the most­ly young, inex­pe­ri­enced, and exhaust­ed Allied sol­diers must take up arms against the Nazis. Blind­ed by dan­ger­ous bliz­zards and ham­pered by the rough ter­rain, they fight to hold their posi­tions until rein­force­ments arrive.

But dead­ly weath­er con­di­tions and the suprise attack make mat­ters dif­fi­cult, and soon, the Allied forces are over­whelmed — out­manned, out­gunned, and underprepared.

As win­ter con­tin­ues and the Bat­tle of the Bulge rages on, it will take an unprece­dent­ed com­bi­na­tion of deter­mi­na­tion, grit, and unimag­in­able courage to thwart the Nazis’s plans and defeat them, once and for all.

Sib­ert Hon­or author Deb­o­rah Hop­kin­son trans­ports read­ers to the blis­ter­ing cold of Bel­gium’s Ardennes For­est with this dar­ing exam­i­na­tion of one of the most infa­mous bat­tles in his­to­ry. Draw­ing on the true accounts of sol­diers and nurs­es and oth­ers who lived to tell the tale, and fea­tur­ing rare pho­tographs, Deb­o­rah Hop­kin­son seam­less­ly weaves togeth­er the sto­ries of the men and women who risked every­thing. They Bat­tled in Bliz­zards is sure to thrill every his­to­ry fan!