All Souls Day: The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion

All Souls Day

The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion
 
Publisher: Potomac Books
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Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
 
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ISBN13:9781640125643
ISBN10:1640125647
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:266 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:410 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 19 photographs, 3 tables, index
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Short description:

All Souls Day is the reconstruction of a little-known battle during World War II and the impact it has to this day.

Long description:
The U.S. Army attacked three villages near the German-Belgium border, surprising the Germans who surrendered with little resistance. The German army regrouped and counterattacked. A brief but horrific battle ensued, and as the enemy pressed forward, the Americans retreated in haste, leaving behind their wounded and their dead. Discussion of this week-long conflict that began on All Souls Day, November 2, 1944, has been confined to officer training school, in part due to its heavy losses and ignominy.

After the war the U.S. Army returned to the battlefield to bring home its fallen. To its dismay it found that many of these men had vanished. The disappearances were puzzling and for decades the U.S. government searched unsuccessfully for clues. After poring over now-declassified battlefield reports and interviewing family members, the authors reconstruct a spellbinding story of love and sacrifice, honor and bravery, as well as a portrait of the gnawing pain of families not knowing what became of their loved ones. Ultimately this work of history and in-depth contemporary journalism proffers a glimmer of light in the ongoing search.

“Pereira and Wilson have fashioned a compelling story about a battle that was doomed from the start, and what it was like to wait for decades for word of a missing relative. . . . A moving account of not just a seminal battle but the lasting effects on those waiting for decades to know what happened to their loved ones.”—David Keymer, Library Journal
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Price of Bravery
1. Molly and Peggy
2. They Can’t Find Jack
3. If You Were Young and Strong and Male
4. Under the Gaze of a Zen Master
5. In the Stillness of a Predawn Hour
6. The Autumn of Its Reign
7. Replacement Depot No. 15
8. Tucked into the Alluvial Folds
9. Flashes of Fire Danced like Distant Lightning
10. I Felt Like a Little Napoleon 
11. Like Caskets Tossed from the Deck
12. If I Leave Now, Would It Be Desertion?
13. From the Lower Levels of Dante’s Inferno
14. Am I Wounded Badly? 
15. It Had a Bittersweet Sound
16. Zwei Amerikanische Soldaten
Notes
Index