Obedience to the Fuhrer. Obedience to the death. Hitler's elite SS bodyguards prided themselves on doing whatever it took, even if death was the price.  Meer

The U.S. Army regards the Hurtgen Forest as one of the most desperate battles it has ever fought. Flanking the key German city of Aachen, the forest was one of the formidable natural barriers interspersed with German fortifications in the West Wall in September 1944.  Meer

Charles Whiting was a prolific British novelist and military historian. He wrote under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Leo Kessler and K.  Meer