ELITE SERIES. EDITOR: MARTIN WINDROW Ardennes 1944: Peiper and Skorzeny Text by JEAN-PAUL PALLUD Colour plates by DAVID PARKER and RON VOLSTAD © OSPREY PUBLISHING LONDONPublished in 1987 by Osprey Publishing Lid 459 Grosvenor Street, London WiX gDA (© Copyright 1987 Osprey Publishing Ltd Reprinted 1988 (twice) ‘This book is copyrighted under the Berne Convention All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner, Enquiries should be addressed to the Publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Pallud, Jean-Paul ‘Ardennes, 1944: Peiper and Skorzeny (Blite series; t1) 1. Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 I. Title IL. Series 40.5421 D756.5-A7 ISBN 0-85045-740°8 Filmset in Great Britain Printed through Bookbuilders Ltd, Hong Kong Author’s note ‘All the photographs used in this book are from the US Army, apart from those captioned ‘La Gleize Museum’, The pictures showing German troops in action were originally taken by Wehrmacht photographers and cameramen, but were later captured by the US Army, some (Poteau, Kaiserbarracke) as early as the end of December 1944 and the remainder later in 1945. ‘This text and selection of illustrations has been worked up by the author from research material carried out for his book Baitle of the Bulge (538 pp, more than 1200 photographs) published by Afier the Battle, London