His Superior MOCKED Him - But He Was The Only US General Ready For The 2nd Battle of The Bulge скачать в хорошем качестве

His Superior MOCKED Him - But He Was The Only US General Ready For The 2nd Battle of The Bulge

While his superiors mocked him for refusing to accept the obvious solution, one American general was quietly preparing for a second Battle of the Bulge—and he would turn out to be the only one ready when it came. In January 1945, as German forces launched Operation Nordwind in Alsace, orders from Dwight D. Eisenhower called for a withdrawal that would abandon Strasbourg and risk shattering the Western Alliance, but Jacob L. Devers chose another path. He built defensive lines that weren’t supposed to exist, held ground others believed was lost, and preserved both an American army and a city whose symbolic weight threatened to split the Allies, even as Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill warned of political catastrophe. This video explores how Devers’ quiet defiance kept Strasbourg out of German hands—and why a general who made one of the most consequential decisions of the war was later written out of its popular memory.