The Last Battle, Stephen Harding
The Last Battle, Stephen Harding
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The Last Battle
When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

Author: Stephen Harding

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2013

Synopsis

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. Its a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer and his men, who voluntarily join the fight. Based on personal memoirs, author interviews, and official American, German, and French histories, The Last Battle is the nearly unbelievable story of the most improbable battle of World War IIa tale of unlikely allies, bravery, cowardice, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.

About Stephen Harding

Stephen Harding, a
journalist specializing in military affairs, has reported from Northern
Ireland, Bosnia, and Iraq. Editor-in-chief of Military History magazine,
he lives in Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mircea on January 19, 2023

Printre prizonierii de onoare din castel s-au aflat Reynaud. Daladier, Gamelin si Weygand - liderii politici si militari ai Frantei de la inceputul invaziei germane. Asta a facut povestea si mai interesanta.......more

Goodreads review by Russ on July 07, 2013

Why haven't I heard of this battle before? Take ten American GIs, one Sherman tank, fifteen German soldiers, fourteen quarrelsome French dignitaries, a handful of concentration camp survivors, and two hundred execution-minded Nazis; put them together against the backstop of a medieval German castle o......more

Goodreads review by Bon Tom on December 26, 2020

One of those lesser known events of WWII, that I'm grateful to come to know about thanks to the efforts of investigative authors. I guess we need to hurry up until these priceless stories are lost to the history and there are still people who can fog the mirror (to use the term from the book) and pa......more

Goodreads review by Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog on November 18, 2018

It is said that war consists of long periods of too little happening and a few moments of too many things happening. Such is the case with Stephen Harding’s The Last Battle. Journalist that he is he has found one of the least likely events of World War II and given us a chance to meet the people who......more

Goodreads review by KB on September 18, 2018

Stephen Harding's The Last Battle chronicles an obscure event that occurred in the closing hours of World War II in Europe, during which a motley band of American soldiers, German defectors, and elderly high-profile French political prisoners were besieged within a medieval Austrian castle by fanati......more

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