An edition of Messengers of the Lost Battalion (1997)

Messengers of the lost battalion

the heroic 551st and the turning of the tide at the Battle of the Bulge

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An edition of Messengers of the Lost Battalion (1997)

Messengers of the lost battalion

the heroic 551st and the turning of the tide at the Battle of the Bulge

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In 1989, Gregory Orfalea received notice that the first reunion of his father's World War II infantry battalion, the 551st, would be held in France. Still mourning the death of his father the year before, Orfalea decided to attend in his place, hoping to find some survivors of the unit who could help him piece together the lost story of his father's wartime experiences. What he discovered far exceeded his modest expectations.

Why has this heroic unit's memory been all but completely erased from the military annals of the war? Why was the 551st sent to its destruction in a desperate assault on the village of Rochelinval during the Battle of the Bulge? And finally, how could the handful of frostbitten, bloodstained renegades that were the 551st's walking wounded actually take Rochelinval and win the day?

Within hours of the 551st victory at Rochelinval, the last German Tiger tank had run out of fuel, Hitler's last chilling counteroffensive of the war was over, and the German Army was in full and final retreat. But Messengers of the Lost Battalion is more than an engaging history and powerful war story; it is also a moving tale about a son's search for his father - a soldier who delivered the messages of the battalion by motorbike.

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
408

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.395-397) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/219348
Library of Congress
D756.5.A7 O74 1997, D756.5.A7O74 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 408 p. :
Number of pages
408

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1003987M
Internet Archive
messengersoflost00orfa_0
ISBN 10
0684828049
LCCN
96043681
OCLC/WorldCat
35548987
Library Thing
547264
Goodreads
561988

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"Can you imagine the enormous sound then, and how quiet it is now?"
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