- Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners and prisons, German, Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945, German Prisoners and prisons
Overview: "It was a cold December morning in 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest of Belgium. Eighteen men of a small intelligence platoon commanded by twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes, desperately trying to keep warm.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alex Kershaw
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph Ltd, Sound Library, Alpha Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780306813047
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- Prisoners and prisons
- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
- German Prisoners and prisons
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 394th. Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon
- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- History
- Regimental histories
- Campaigns
- United states, army, infantry
- World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories
“Count Klaus von Stauffenberg, chief of staff to General Friedrich Fromm, commander of the Army of the Interior, tried to keep his nerve as he stood alone, holding open a briefcase, in a bathroom deep inside Adolf Hitler's Prussian headquarters-the so-called Wolf's Lair.”
Born in York, England, Alex Kershaw attended University College, Oxford where he studied politics, philosophy and economics. He taught history before working as a journalist for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times. He is the author of books on World War II and biographies of adventurous personalities. - Wikipedia
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