Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment

by Robert S. Rush

Book Overview

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle between the American 22d Infantry Regiment and elements of the German LXXIV Korps around Grosshau, Rush chronicles small-unit combat at its most extreme and shows why, despite enormous losses, the Americans persevered in the Hurtgenwald "meat grinder," a battle similar to two punch-drunk fighters staggering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613609
• ISBN13: 9780700613601
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"