No Less Than Victory - A Novel of World War II

Zusatztext “A grand achievement! historically accurate yet utterly compelling.”— Booklist (starred review) “[An] incisive portrait of war . . . Jeff Shaara [is] one of the grand masters of military fiction.”— BookPage   “Powerful . . . impossible to put down.”—Huntington News Network “Fans of military fiction will definitely gobble this up.”— Publishers Weekly “Vividly portrays the war’s final act.”— Pensacola News Journal Informationen zum Autor Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure —two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels . Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives again in Tallahassee. Klappentext 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 Führer will spare nothing to preserve his twisted vision of a "Thousand Year Reich!" but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust. 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. Leseprobe 1. THE REPLACEMENT The British Lines, Near Ypres, Western Belgium–Autumn 1915 The darkness was complete, a slow march into a black, wet hell. He was the last man in the short column, one part of a line of twenty men, guided by the low sounds in front of him, soft thumps, boots on the sagging duckboards. There were voices, hard whispers, and, close to him, a hissing growl from the sergeant: “Keep together, you bloody laggards! No stopping!” No one answered, no protests. Each man held himself tightly inside, the words of the sergeant swept aside by the voices in their own minds, a tight screaming fear, the only response they could have to this march into the black unknown. They had come as so many had come, crossing the Channel on small steamers, filing through the chaos of the seaports, and after a few days, they had boarded the trains. There was singing, bands playing along the way, the raucous enthusiasm of young recruits. They had stared curiously at the French and Belgian countryside, returning the smiles of the people who greeted them at every stop, and few noticed that as the trains moved farther inland, closer to the vast desolation of the Western Front, the villagers were quieter, the faces more grim. Then the trains stopped, and the men were ordered out onto roads that had seen too much use, repaired and repaired again. They would march now only at night, hidden from the eyes in the air, the aeroplanes that sought out targets for German artillery. If the roads were bad, the small trails and pathways were worse, men stumbling in tight files, moving closer still to the front. The fire in the recruits was dampened now, by the weather, the ever-present mud, the soggy lowlands of Flanders. Then came the first sounds, low rumbles, louder as they marched forward. Even in the darkness, both sides threw a nightly artillery barrage at the other, some firing blind, some relying on the memory of the d...

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Shaara
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2011
• EAN: 9780440423393
• ISBN: 978-0-440-42339-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 191 mm x 30 mm
• Series: World War II; World War II
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature