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The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

By Stephen Harding

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0306822083, 9780306822087
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3702173 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2013-12-22 10:32:30

Description

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It’s a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer and his men, who voluntarily join the fight.Based on personal memoirs, author interviews, and official American, German, and French histories, The Last Battle is the nearly unbelievable story of the most improbable battle of World War II—a tale of unlikely allies, bravery, cowardice, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.

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