The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe by McKay Jenkins

The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe

McKay Jenkins

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

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When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939-40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier n...

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