351 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-329) and index.
Contents
Seek, Strike and Destroy -- North Africa -- Vindication in North Africa -- Italian mud! -- Stalemate at Cassino -- Anzio: "Easy at first but tough as hell now" -- Push them back into the sea -- World War I all over again -- Breakout for Rome -- Here we go again: Training for the forgotten D-Day -- France isn't Italy -- Conquerors of the Vosges -- Alsace -- The other Battle of the Bulge -- Germany at last -- It finally ends.
Summary
"Describes the Tank Destroyer Battalion, the 601st, a new military unit that took on the Third Reich's armored tanks of the fierce and seemingly indestructible Panzerwaffe in the final battles of World War II, "--Novelist.
