The new Bulge: German book covers German forces in the west from the end of the battle for France in August 1944 into February 1945. Its background and history covers the Lorraine fighting in September 1944, the German defence during the Allied Market Garden offensive in the Netherlands, as well the German Ardennes Offensive that became known as the Battle of the Bulge, and Germany’s last major offensive in the west, Operation Nordwind in Alsace-Lorraine in early January 1945.