Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw

Riveting account of an I&R platoon in the 99th Division during the Battle of the Bulge and afterwards in captivity. I knew remotely the story of a platoon that held up the entire northern German thrust for a day, but this book provides the first hand account details of how 18 men more or less ruined Wacht Am Rhein the first day of the operation.