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"The Final Crisis"
Combat in Northern Alsace
January 1945

This book, by the late Dick Engler (42nd Rainbow Division) is the product of meticulous research and tells in great detail the story of the 7th Army (and Task Force Linden) in the unheralded, magnificent defense of Northern Alsace during Hitler's last offensive of the war, code named "Operation Nordwind." Dick Engler served as a teen aged rifleman in his infantry company and later also served in Korea. He felt that his generation's hardships, suffering and success in forestalling Germany's massive "Nordwind" attacks was a story which needed to be told.

The prolonged battle throughout January, 1945 was fought in snow and below zero conditions, the worst in 40 years. Worn, overworked and under strength divisions were called upon for further sacrifices and green half trained infantry task forces were thrown into the maelstrom without artillery or other supporting units. Crucial encounters from the Vosges Mountains to the Rhine and throughout the Northern Alsatian plain are dealt with at length and battles are faithfully chronicled: Gambsheim, Kilstett, Weyersheim. Offendorf, Drusenheim, Herrlisheim, Soults-Foret, Sessenheim, Hatten, Rittershoffen, and the Haguenau Sector including Kaltenhouse, Neubourg, Schweighausen and the climactic battle of Ohlungen Forest are depicted in stark detail.

This is a book that can be passed on to future generations in which the trials and great sacrifices in the cause of freedom are indelibly etched by the written word.

Price: $29.95 plus $4.00 shipping and handling, total of $33.95.

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