![]() ![]() Fifty-one had been killed, 183 wounded and 167 suffered frostbite or trench foot. By V-E Day, 625 men had served in its ranks. One infantry company landed in Normandy on August 8 with 187 men and six officers. ![]() The 1945 offensive into Germany was a triumph of a citizen army, but the price was high. Ambrose's accounts of the fighting in Normandy, the breakout and the bitter autumn struggles for Aachen and the battles in the Huertgen Forest and around Metz depict an army depending not on generalship but on the courage, skill and adaptability of small-unit commanders and their men. Using interviews and other personal accounts by both German and American participants, Ambrose tells instead the story of enlisted men and junior officers who not only mastered the battlefield but developed emotional resources that endured and transcended the shocks of modern combat. These men are frequently dismissed as winning victories by firepower rather than acknowledged for their individual fighting power. The story of the front-line American combatants who took WWII to the Germans from Normandy to the Elbe River makes, in Ambrose's expert hands, for an outstanding sequel to his D-Day (1994). ![]()
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