The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace, January 1945
Engler, Richard
ISBN 10: 0966638913 ISBN 13: 9780966638912
Published by Aegis Consulting Group, Hampton, 2001
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A multi-faceted book built around an intensely personal and vivid memoir of infantry combat in the last brutal winter of WWII. The author combines these carefully-verified recollections with an insightful description and analysis of the social dynamics within an incompletely-trained infantry platoon thrown into combat unexpectedly and prematurely in the face of Operation NORDWIND, the last German offensive on the Western Front in WWII. Framed by a comprehensive and detailed account of the US Seventh Army's tenacious struggle to halt a combined German force including Tiger tanks, Luftwaffe paratroopers, previously-undefeated SS mountain infantry, and the last of Germany's manpower reserves, The Final Crisis provides credit to the American infantrymen and tankers who halted the last threat to the Western Alliance. Long overshadowed by the Ardennes Offensive, the so-called "Battle of the Bulge," which barely preceded it, the struggle to halt the NORDWIND offensive comes to life at every level from foxhole to field army.
8.5" x 11" format; 25 original maps; 20 original pen and ink drawings, rendered by Colonel (then-Lieutenant) Ted MacKechnie, 42d Infantry Division, WWII; index
About the Author: Richard Engler served as an automatic rifleman in the 42nd "Rainbow" Division throughout the period covered by the book. Earning his undergraduate degree at UCLA following the war, he reenlisted during the Korean War and again served as a combat infantryman in the 40th Infantry Division during the last year of that conflict. After his second honorable discharge, Engler earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Southern California, and embarked on a career as a private consultant to disadvantaged and small businesses in the Washington, D.C. area. Making extensive use of primary source material from the nearby National Archives, the author completed The Final Crisis over a nearly 10-year period in the 1980s and early 1990s. He passed away in 1995.
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Title: The Final Crisis: Combat in Northern Alsace,...
Publisher: Aegis Consulting Group, Hampton
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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