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No Victory in Valhalla

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: History (Osprey)

Last Stocked on 12/12/2020

Product Info

Title
No Victory in Valhalla
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Ian Gardner
Publish Year
2016
Pages
358
Dimensions
5x8x2"
NKG Part #
2147649363
MFG. Part #
OSPGM818
Type
Softcover

Description

The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment - the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers - this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe. Exhausted and battered following the disastrous Market-Garden campaign, the 506th were due three months of R&R, but were rushed back in to halt the desperate German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. When the offensive was finally halted after months of fighting the 506th pushed on into Germany where Ed Shames was the first Allied soldier to enter Dachau before the unit were sent to occupy Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgarden.

Based on extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, this volume relives the struggles of the paratroopers of the renowned 'Screaming Eagles' in some of the toughest fighting of World War II, bringing the story of their defiant unit to its conclusion.