There is one caution. Don’t become fascinated by the map. You may be tempted to say to yourself, “It was simple. The allies rushed to the north, and the Germans then cut across the south. I could have won that battle.” Could you, now? If the French and British had had the God’s-eye view shown in the maps, we would not be studying the battle today. They could have bottled-up the German thrust through the Ardennes since they had the forces available and the plans prepared. An allied loss under what the military call “perfect intelligence” would have been a colossal blunder, not the result of
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