After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that
the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the
Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that
begins the Battle of the Bulge--the last gasp by Hitler's forces and
some of the most brutal fighting of the war. The Führer will spare
nothing--not even German lives--to preserve his twisted vision of a
"Thousand Year Reich," but stout American resistance defeats the German
thrust, and by spring 1945 the German army faces total collapse. With
Russian troops closing in on Berlin, Hitler commits suicide. As the
Americans sweep through the German countryside, they encounter the worst
of Hitler's crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find
themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.
No Less Than Victory is a riveting account presented through the
eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, and the soldiers who struggled face-to-face
with their enemy, as well as from the vantage point of Germany's old
soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler's golden boy, Albert Speer. Jeff
Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the
soldier and the horror of a madman's dreams.