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Conceived in desperation after the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, Germany's Operation Nordwind culminated in the frozen Alsatian fields surrounding the Zorn River. In what was expected to be an easy offensive, the German 10th Waffen SS Panzer Division attacked the American 12th Armored Division near the villages of Herrlisheim and Weyersheim. Neither army foresaw the savage violence that ensued.
Combining the vivid eyewitness accounts of veterans from both sides of the conflict with information gleaned from a variety of long-unavailable print sources, this richly detailed history casts a fascinating light on a little-known but crucial battle in the Second World War. Common stalwart German and American soldiers carried out near-impossible orders.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I : Roads to Alsace
Introduction to Part I
1. Texas and Le Bec Hellouin, December 1943
2. Russia and Spokane, December 1941
3. Vienna and Fallingbostel, November 1942
4. German POWs and the Frundsberg Division, June 1943
5. Camp Barkeley and Russian-Occupied Poland, April 1944
6. Normandy, August 1944
7. Camp Shanks, New York, September 1944
8. Zutphen and the SS Empress of Australia, September 1944
9. Operation Market Garden, September 1944
10. The Salisbury Plain and St. Pölten, October 1944
11. Le Havre and Beyond, November 1944
Part II : Alsace
Introduction to Part II
12. Bining, Rohrbach and Roeschwoog, December 1944
13. Schweighausen and La Breymuhl, January 1945
14. Althussheim, January 1945
15. The Steinwald, January 1945
16. East of the Zorn River, January 1945
17. Herrlisheim, January 1945
18. Weyersheim, January 1945
19. The Bruchwald, January 1945
Part III : Beyond Alsace
Introduction to Part III
20. Oberhoffen and Heidenheim, February-May 1945
21. Stalag XI-B and Berlin, April 1945
22. Michigan, Texas, Mississippi, Niedernhal, Vienna and Fachingen Lahn
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
