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In "No Less Than Victory," Jeff Shaara traces the climactic final chapter of the European war. After the Normandy invasion, Allied commanders expect a swift end, but Hitler’s 1944 Ardennes counteroffensive throws the Allies into disarray. Shaara follows the brutal battle across the snowy Ardennes, the Allied response, and the German retreat to the borders of the USSR. Through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton, German commanders Gerd von Rundstedt and Albert Speer, and frontline U.S. soldiers, readers witness both the fierce combat of the Battle of the Bulge and the dawning horror of concentration camps. The novel ends with Germany’s collapse, Hitler’s suicide, and the United States’ passage through a landscape scarred by war and genocide.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Jeff Shaara
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