Monty's D-Day: Caen and beyond / David C. Isby -- "By the throat": decision at Falaise / Peter G. Tsouras -- Patton and the narrow thrust: the Ardennes route into Germany / James R. Arnold -- A backdoor into Germany: Monty bounces the Rhine / Andrew Uffindell -- The race to Bastogne: nuts! / Christopher J. Anderson -- Blunting the Bulge: from the Maas to the Meuse with First Canadian Army / Sean M. Maloney -- Go home, this is our Goddam show! / Charles Vasey -- Operation Herbstnebel: smoke over the Ardennes / John Prados -- Holding Patton: Seventh Panzer Army and the Battle of Luxembourg / Kim H. Campbell -- Ardennes disaster: the Iron Curtain falls on the White House / Peter G. Tsouras.