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From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys, the

remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that

miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the

Bulge

On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the

Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th

Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main

thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly

outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs."

Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German

assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing hundreds of German

soldiers. Only when they had run out of ammunition did they

surrender to the enemy.

But their long winter was just beginning. As POWs, the platoon

experienced an ordeal far worse than combat-surviving in wretched

German POW camps. Yet miraculously the men of the platoon

survived-all of them-and returned home after the war. More than

thirty years later, when President Carter recognized the platoon's

"extraordinary heroism" and the U.S. Army approved combat medals

for all eighteen men, they became America's most decorated platoon

of World War II.

With the same vivid and dramatic prose that made The Bedford

Boys a national bestseller, Alex Kershaw brings to life the story

of these little-known heroes-an epic tale of courage, duty, and

survival in World War II and one of the most inspiring episodes in

American history. The Longest Winter is an intensely human story

about young men who find themselves in frightening wartime

situations, who fight back instinctively, survive stoically, and

live heroically.

Acknowledgments

Roster of the 394th I&R Platoon at the Battle of the

Bulge

PART ONE  WATCH ON THE I~HINE

 1  The Wolf's Lair

 2  Camp Maxey

 3  Wacht am Rhein

 4  The Ghost Front

 5  Shadow Soldiers

PART Two  TtIE BATTLE OF LANZERATH

 6  Sturm!

 7  The Last Sunset

 8  The Car6 Scholzen

 9  Terror

PART THREE.  WAR BF.HIND WIRE

 10  Guests of the Reich

 11  The Stalags

 12  The River

 13  Task Force Baum

 14  Last Days of the Reich

PART FOUR  LAST BATTLES

15  Moosberg

16  Summer of'45

17  Justice

18  Reunion

Notes

List of Awards: Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon,

394th Infantry Division, 99th Infantry Division,

and 394th I&R Presidential Unit Citation

Bibliography

Index

Maps

     The Western Front, December 1944

     394th I&FPlatoon's Area of Operations,

December 1944

     The Battle of Lanzerath, December 16,

1944

     German POW Camps

Alex Kershaw is the author of the widely acclaimed book The

Bedford Boys and two biographies: Jack London and, more

recently, Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert

Capa. He has been a journalist and screenwriter in Britain and

now lives in Bennington, Vermont.

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"A gripping saga about raw courage and superhuman endurance." --

Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the

Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New

Orleans

"A moving story of uncommon valor." --

James Bradley, author,

Flags of Our Fathers

and

Flyboys

"A riveting read." --

USA Today

"America's enemies would do well not to underestimate this sense of

courage and duty." --

Wall Street Journal

"Kershaw is a fantastic storyteller." --

Army

magazine

"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants a renewed sense of

patriotism." --

Roanoke Times