WWII--US ARMY--82nd AIRBORNE--551st INFANTRY BATTALION IN BATTLE OF THE BULGE!

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"MESSENGERS OF THE LOST BATTALION--THE HEROIC 551st AND THE TURNING OF THE TIDE AT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE" is a powerful, riveting true account of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division's 551st Infantry Battalion! The author's father attended a reunion of his father's WWII unit...the 551st Infantry Battalion... in 1989. His father had passed away the year before. He wanted to find out why the accomplishments of his father's unit was all but completely erased from the annals of war. Why was the 551st sent to its destruction in a desperate assault on the village of Rochelinval during the Battle of the Bulge? And finally, how could a handful of frostbitten, bloodstained renegades that were the 551st's walking wounded actually take Rochelinval and win the day? Within hours of their victory, the last Nazi Tiger tank had run out of fuel. Hitler's last chilling counteroffensive was over. Here is the incredible story of the 551st. And, here is the incredible story of a son's search for his father--a soldier who delivered messages of the battalion by motorcycle. Here are the absolutely spellbinding stories of 551st Infantry Battalion survivors of the Battle of the Bulge. It's one of those books that's just about impossible to put down!
Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 1997. It is in NEAR MINT CONDITION, measures 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", and contains 408 pages with 14 pages of rare photographs.
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