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Hailed as ''masterly'' (Wall Street Journal) and a ''monumental achievement'' (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible WWII mission.In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America''s most unforgiving terrain, where many of them had struggled through the Great Depression relying on canny survival skills and the fearlessness of youth. Brought together by the promise to take part in the military''s most elite missions, they formed a unique brotherhood tested first by the crucible of state-of-the-art trainingincluding skiing, roc

The Force

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 8/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9780008701086
      978-0008701086
      ISBN-10 0008701083
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      Book Synopsis
      Hailed as ''masterly'' (Wall Street Journal) and a ''monumental achievement'' (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible WWII mission.In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America''s most unforgiving terrain, where many of them had struggled through the Great Depression relying on canny survival skills and the fearlessness of youth. Brought together by the promise to take part in the military''s most elite missions, they formed a unique brotherhood tested first by the crucible of state-of-the-art trainingincluding skiing, roc

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