Table of Contents
Foreword Ed Shames 9
Preface George Koskimaki 10
Acknowledgments 12
Introduction James "Pee Wee" Martin 16
1 "Johnny, we hardly knew you" 19
Camp Chalons, Mourmelon-le-Grand - November 28 - December 18, 1944
2 "Ghost front" 38
December 17-19, 1944
3 "Today is the only reality" 81
December 20, 1944
4 "Epitaph for a generation" 105
December 21-24, 1944
5 "The deep six" 130
The worst winter in 50 years
6 "Steel whirlwind" 152
Post-Christmas breakthrough
7 "Hell night" 171
Clearing the Fazone Woods - January 9, 1945
8 "Salute the new dawn" 190
The final attacks on Foy and Noville - January 13-17, 1945
9 "After the storm" 217
Alsace Lorraine and the Colmar Pocket - January 21- February 25, 1945
10 "Home alive in '45" 232
Return to Mourmelon - February 26-April 2, 1945
11 "Setting sons" 243
The Ruhr, western Germany - April 3-24, 1945
12 "Striking back" 250
The plight of the 3rd Battalion POWs - June 1944-May 1945
13 "Candle for the dead" 272
Southern Bavaria - April 28-May 3, 1945
14 "The roaring silence" 290
Berchtesgaden, Austria, and France - May 4-November 30, 1945
Epilogue 338
Bibliography 341
Glossary 343
Index 344