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December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....

"Previously unpublished, this German postwar classic is one of the best books of this major writer, who died in 2014. The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men--stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face...

This book tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the Western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the Southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri, for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1948, and The Course of Empire, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1953. DeVoto's...

Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he...

The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.

Whirlwind: Bombing Germany, September 1939-April 1944: Fueled by revenge, the British show their mettle, and with the help of American forces retake the skies and bomb Germany into submission. Tough old gut: Italy, November 1942-June 1944: Eleven months after Pearl Harbor , Churchill convinces the American forces to join the Allies in taking Italy. After an initial setback in NOrth Africa, the German war machine begins losing its air of invincibility. It's...

Firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from decorated soldiers of all branches of the military capture front-line stories of combat, courage under fire, and heroism on the battlefield.

The story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, their accomplishments in the mountains of Italy and their impact on the sport of skiing in the United States.

The struggle: The men and women of Utah's "Greatest Generation" recollect the first difficult months of the war. Includes interviews with Utah veterans who experienced Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, Wake Island, the Phillippines and the "Bataan Death March." Europe: The memoires of Utah veterans who fought for the liberation of Europe. The Pacific: The men and women of Utah recount their very personal stories from the war in the Pacific. The home...