{"product_id":"the-final-crisis-combat-on-northern-alsace-january-1945","title":"The Final Crisis: Combat on Northern Alsace  January 1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eA multi-faceted book built around an intensely personal and vivid memoir of infantry combat in the last brutal winter of WWII. The author combines these carefully-verified recollections with an insightful description and analysis of the social dynamics within an incompletely-trained infantry platoon thrown into combat unexpectedly and prematurely in the face of Operation NORDWIND  the last German offensive on the Western Front in WWII. Framed by a comprehensive and detailed account of the US Seventh Armys tenacious struggle to halt a combined German force including Tiger tanks  Luftwaffe paratroopers  previously-undefeated SS mountain infantry  and the last of Germanys manpower reserves  The Final Crisis provides credit to the American infantrymen and tankers who halted the last threat to the Western Alliance. Long overshadowed by the Ardennes Offensive  the so-called \"Battle of the Bulge \" which barely preceded it  the struggle to halt the NORDWIND offensive comes to life at every level from foxhole to field army. 8.5\" x 11\" format; 25 original maps; 20 original pen and ink drawings  rendered by Colonel (then-Lieutenant) Ted MacKechnie  42d Infantry Division  WWII; index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985912098869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0966638913","price":105.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780966638912.jpg?v=1770876967","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-final-crisis-combat-on-northern-alsace-january-1945","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}