No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara

By Jeff Shaara

A minimum of Victory is the crowning fulfillment in grasp storyteller Jeff Shaara’s hovering global warfare II trilogy, revealing the ecu war’s unforgettable and harrowing ultimate act.

After the good fortune of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly convinced that the conflict in Europe can be over in a question of weeks, that Hitler and his battered military haven't any different choice than quit. yet regardless of the recommendation of his top army minds, Hitler will pay attention no speak of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans release a determined and ruthless counteroffensive within the Ardennes wooded area, completely fabulous the unprepared americans who stand of their method. throughout the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry fight to achieve Hitler’s target: divide the Allied armies and trap the important port at Antwerp. The assault succeeds in establishing up a large hole within the American traces, and for days chaos reigns within the Allied command. therefore starts the conflict of the Bulge, the final gasp by way of Hitler’s forces that turns into a awful slugging fit, essentially the most brutal struggling with of the warfare. As American commanders reply to the lovely problem, the German spear is ultimately blunted.

Though a few within the Nazi internal circle proceed the struggle to safe Germany’s postwar destiny, the Führer makes it transparent that he's struggling with to the top. he'll spare nothing–not even German lives–to look after his twisted imaginative and prescient of a “Thousand yr Reich.” yet in might 1945, the German military collapses, and with Russian troops ultimate in, Hitler commits suicide. because the americans sweep during the German nation-state, they all of sudden stumble upon the worst of Hitler’s crimes, the focus camps, and younger GIs locate themselves soaking up firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.

Presenting his riveting account throughout the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the younger GIs who fight face-to-face with their enemy, and during the eyes of Germany’s outdated soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara incorporates the reader on a trip that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s goals. No below Victory extra solidifies Shaara’s attractiveness as this era’s so much finished writer of old army fiction.

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And 26 Brigade's anti-tank company and turned to get away. While this was taking place, the perimeter posts fought on with ferocious determination. The hard work the Diggers had put in to convert the pits for all-round defence now paid off. German and Italian tanks would approach and try to pin the defenders down in order for infantry to make an assault, but these battles raged all day with very few successes for the Axis forces. It took all morning to subdue S5, S6 and S7, but S8, S9 and S10 held out.

Lumbered with this responsibility, Cunningham was at the same time being pestered by the Admiralty to bombard Tripoli, an operation which he maintained would have little effect (and he was duly proved right). Soon afterwards he was tasked with evacuating the BEF from Greece to Crete and Egypt and, despite heavy loss, over 50,000 men were rescued. At the end of May another evacuation of 18,000 men was required from Crete, carried out once again with unflinching bravery and at high cost. Without the support of the Royal Navy, the Army was incapable of sustaining any operations in the Mediterranean.

Was to be prepared to move towards Sceleidima, On inspecting this knocked-out Panzer I, this Digger could be forgiven for wondering why so much fuss was being made about the dreaded German panzer forces. The first German tank to go into mass production in 1934, it was obsolete when production stopped two years later. With a two-man crew and a machinegun armament, its inadequacies did not prevent it seeing extensive front-line service up until 1941. (TM 1335/B5) 31 For carrying vital fluids of war fuel, lubricants and water - the British were singularly ill-equipped.

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