Category: Fiction: Military: WWII

Copyright/published Year: 2009 by Ballantine Books

ISBN: 0345497929

Binding: Hardcover

Description: No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master ì storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing ì the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.

After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders ì are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a ì matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other ì option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best ì military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In ì mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless ì counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the ì unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid ì snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry ì struggle to realize Hitler's goal: divide the Allied armies and ì capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening ì up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in ì the Allied command. Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last ì gasp by Hitler's forces that becomes a horrific slugging match, ì some of the most brutal fighting of the war. As American ì commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is ì finally blunted.

Though some in the Nazi inner circle continue the fight to secure ì Germany's postwar future, the Führer makes it clear that he is ì fighting to the end. He will spare nothing-not even German ì lives-to preserve his twisted vision of a "Thousand Year Reich." ì But in May 1945, the German army collapses, and with Russian ì troops closing in, Hitler commits suicide. As the Americans sweep ì through the German countryside, they unexpectedly encounter the ì worst of Hitler's crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs ì find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the ì Holocaust.

Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower ì and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their ì enemy, and through the eyes of Germany's old soldier, Gerd von ì Rundstedt, and Hitler's golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara ì carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the ì soldier and the horror of a madman's dreams. No Less Than ì Victory further solidifies Shaara's reputation as this era's ì most accomplished author of historical military fiction.

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