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The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
The Last Battle When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
Author: Stephen Harding
May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780306822964
ISBN-10: 0306822962
Publication Date: 6/10/2014
Pages: 223
Edition: First Trade Paper Ed
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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While not a major book on World War II, it was certainly an interesting one. Those who read widely about the war will not be surprised at the---what seemed like---total confusion in the last days as Allied forces raced through the dissolving resistance of German forces in Germany and Austria. But they may be surprised to read about Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS soldiers joining forces with American troops to fight other Waffen-SS troops trying to kill off some French VIP political prisoners.

At the end, the author relates the post-war lives of all the major and minor players. While several of the French prisoners continued their political careers, one man later received a Nobel Prize and one woman received several two high awards from the French government. Sadly for one major participant, his post-war life was a downward spiral.

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