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The longest winter : the Battle of the Bulge and the epic story of WWII's most decorated platoon / Alex Kershaw.

Kershaw, Alex. (Author).

Summary:

Recounts events surrounding the 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes, France, during World War II, and the plight of eighteen men of a single platoon who were captured and survived in German POW camps through the end of the war.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0306813041
  • ISBN: 9780306813047
  • Physical Description: xi, 326 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Da Capo Press edition.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Watch on the Rhine -- The Battle of Lanzerath -- War behind the wire -- Last battles.
Subject: United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 394th. Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon.
Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
Prisoners of war > Germany > History.
Prisoners of war > United States > History.
Prisoners > Germany > History.
Prisoners > United States > History.
Prisons > Germany > History.
Prisons > United States > History.
Simmons, Martha, Donor.
Simmons, Stuart Michael > Honorarium.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Belgium.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Belgium > Prisoners and prisons.

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