No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II

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After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulgethe last gasp by Hitlers forces and some of the most brutal fighting of the war. The Fhrer will spare nothingnot even German livesto preserve his twisted vision of a Thousand Year Reich, but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust, and by spring 1945 the German army faces total collapse. With Russian troops closing in on Berlin, Hitler commits suicide. As the Americans sweep through the German countryside, they encounter the worst of Hitlers crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.

No Less Than Victory is a riveting account presented through the eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, and the soldiers who struggled face-to-face with their enemy, as well as from the vantage point of Germanys old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitlers golden boy, Albert Speer. Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madmans dreams.

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[An] incisive portrait of war . . . Jeff Shaara [is] one of the grand masters of military fiction.BookPage

A powerful evocation of the war in Europe . . . impossible to put down until the very end.Huntington News Network

Fans of military fiction will definitely gobble this up.Publishers Weekly

Vividly portrays the wars final act.Pensacola News Journal

Author Bio

Jeff Shaarais theNew York Timesbestselling author ofA Chain of Thunder,A Blaze of Glory,The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion,andGone for Soldiers,as well asGods and GeneralsandThe Last Full Measuretwo novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his fathers Pulitzer Prizewinning classic,The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg.