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New York, NY: Basic Books | Hachette (June 16, 2026)
First Edition. Signed.
As new in dust jacket.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown 1960 and Countdown 1945 comes a sweeping account of American forces in their greatest and deadliest hour of World War II.
Nearing Christmas 1944, camouflaged by the hilly, snow-covered forests of the Ardennes along the border of Belgium and Luxembourg, American and Allied soldiers march toward the most bloodstained battle of the war. The success of D-Day and the Normandy campaign six months earlier couldn’t protect 81,000 fatigued Americans from death, injury, and capture that winter. With as many as 103,000 Nazi casualties and 3,000 civilians caught in the crossfire, the Battle of the Bulge became a 40-day stand against Germany’s last major attempt to isolate and overpower Allied forces—and one of the most pivotal wins of the war’s final year.
Flashing between accounts of Allied soldiers in the trenches and German prisoners of war, stealing into closed-door conversations within President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House and General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Supreme Headquarters in London, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Chris Wallace offers a front row seat to the Allied Powers’ offensive against a common enemy. Piecing together miscalculations and triumphs, Countdown Battle of the Bulge narrates the heroic stories of the people who carried out the Allied strategy that cost Nazi Germany the Western front, and ultimately won the war.
Chris Wallace is an award-winning journalist with over five decades experience across broadcast and cable television, streaming, print and independent content creation. Wallace is currently a Senior Advisor at RedBird Capital Partners. Prior to RedBird, Wallace anchored CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show and hosted HBO Max's Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?. Wallace anchored Fox News Sunday for eighteen years, where he covered every major political event, and he has also anchored news shows at ABC News and NBC News. Wallace has won every major broadcast news award for his reporting, including three Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and the Peabody Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Countdown Series, including Countdown 1945, Countdown bin Laden, and Countdown 1960.
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