This particular platoon assembled late in 1944 and fought steadily and well across northern France toward the German heartland. The idea was to create a small group of expert riflemen with battlefield stamina to be one of many 'tactical reconnaissance' squads. This was no elite Commando outfit, but scarcely a typical one either. In this instance, we are dealing with a small American infantry unit that rarely reached its official strength of 25 men.

In each book, he tells what really happens in war and what it is like to find oneself a small pawn in an overwhelmingly chaotic, yet extremely important, situation. Kershaw did this in his best-selling The Bedford Boys (about a small town's sacrifice in the D-Day invasion), and repeats it here with the Battle of the Bulge. Study intensively the actions, attitudes and personas of each one of its members, and then follow them to their fate at the war's end. AĪuthor Alex Kershaw has developed a surefire formula to develop reader interest in his popular military histories: start with a small army unit and follow it into an epochal battle. The longest winter the Battle of the Bulge and the epic story of World War II's most decorated platoon.

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The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw