Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, Autumn 1944

by Franz Steidl

Book Overview

The story of two World War II battalions--one German, one American--each cut off behind enemy lines in the same forest at the same time, and the heroic efforts to save them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891416226
• ISBN13: 9780891416227
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

What They Never Told You In History Class

Throughout the last fifty years since the end of World War II there have been many accounts of the many battles fought and the people who fought them. There is one group which is almost always left out. The 442nd RCT. This group of Americans fought some of the bloodiest battles in the war. This book truly places the stellar record of the men of the 442nd in the history books. I gives me a new found respect for these men and the job that they did through what must have been tremendous pressure to succeed. Some of these men I know personally and have the utmost respect for the job that they did. It makes me proud to be an American. This book really does them justice in a time of great injustice. This is one to pass down to the next generation.

The research invloved in this book is fantastic.

Having been one of the men rescued, there is no way we can thank the men of 442 for their heroic efforts. The American press ignored the fact that they were Japanese- Americans. Unfortunately, it is only of late we became aware of the casualties, killed and wounded, suffered in releasing us. It is my beleif they were one of the finest combat units that fought in Europe. The book is extremely well written.