The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon
ISBN-13:
9780306814402
ISBN-10:
0306814404
Edition:
14th Ptg.
Author:
Alex Kershaw
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Format:
Paperback
344 pages
Category:
France
,
European History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
World War II
,
Prisoners of War
,
Regiments
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ISBN-13:
9780306814402
ISBN-10:
0306814404
Edition:
14th Ptg.
Author:
Alex Kershaw
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Format:
Paperback
344 pages
Category:
France
,
European History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
World War II
,
Prisoners of War
,
Regiments
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon (ISBN-13: 9780306814402 and ISBN-10: 0306814404), written by authors
Alex Kershaw, was published by Da Capo Press in 2005.
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Description
The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positionsOn the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs." Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing hundreds of German soldiers. Only when they had run out of ammunition did they surrender to the enemy. But their long winter was just beginning.
As POWs, the platoon experienced an ordeal far worse than combat-surviving in wretched German POW camps. Yet miraculously the men of the platoon survived--all of them--and returned home after the war. More than thirty years later, when President Carter recognized the platoon's "extraordinary heroism" and the U.S. Army approved combat medals for all eighteen men, they became America's most decorated platoon of World War II.
With the same vivid and dramatic prose that made The Bedford Boys a national bestseller, Alex Kershaw brings to life the story of these little-known heroes--an epic tale of courage, duty, and survival in World War II and one of the most inspiring episodes in American history. The Longest Winter is an intensely human story about young men who find themselves in frightening wartime situations, who fight back instinctively, survive stoically, and live heroically.
As POWs, the platoon experienced an ordeal far worse than combat-surviving in wretched German POW camps. Yet miraculously the men of the platoon survived--all of them--and returned home after the war. More than thirty years later, when President Carter recognized the platoon's "extraordinary heroism" and the U.S. Army approved combat medals for all eighteen men, they became America's most decorated platoon of World War II.
With the same vivid and dramatic prose that made The Bedford Boys a national bestseller, Alex Kershaw brings to life the story of these little-known heroes--an epic tale of courage, duty, and survival in World War II and one of the most inspiring episodes in American history. The Longest Winter is an intensely human story about young men who find themselves in frightening wartime situations, who fight back instinctively, survive stoically, and live heroically.
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