TY - BOOK AU - RUSIECKI Stephen M TI - The key to the bulge: the battle for Losheimergraben SN - 0275953025 (hbk.) PY - 1996/// CY - Westport, Conn PB - Praeger KW - SECOND WORLD WAR KW - BATTLE OF THE BULGE KW - GERMAN DEFEAT N2 - The most significant action in the early hours of the Battle of the Bulge. Against-all-odds stand of an untested American infantry unit At the start of the Battle of the Bulge, the green U.S. 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Division occupied a critical road junction. For thirty-six hours, the 394th defended the crossroads against repeated assaults by German forces, inflicting a delay from which the Germans would never recover ER -