The Last Battle
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:14 pm
Boy, they say truth can be stranger than fiction, and here it is!
Did you know one of the final battles during WW2 consisted of Americans and Germans..... fighting together... to save a bunch of snotty French VIPs!
Knock me over with a feather!
Stephen Harding writes a wonderful, fact-filled book about how an American tank commander and his crew, alongside former Nazi Germans, fought off an attack on a medieval castle that was hosting "VIP" prisoners from France. This one is bound to become a movie!
The story starts off slow, because Stephen Harding goes into meticulous details about the brash Americans, the stoic Germans who struggled for their patriotic identity, and the French VIP prisoners would seemed to spend a lot of energy hating each other (they were drawn from harshly different political ideologies - imagine Obama, Ron Paul, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Cruz all forced to be prisoners in a small Austrian castle!). About halfway through though, it picks up nicely with all the different paths coming together. It was a fun read.
Here's an article from The Daily Caller about the book (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ether.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and, of course, the mandatory Amazon link " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Did you know one of the final battles during WW2 consisted of Americans and Germans..... fighting together... to save a bunch of snotty French VIPs!
Knock me over with a feather!
Stephen Harding writes a wonderful, fact-filled book about how an American tank commander and his crew, alongside former Nazi Germans, fought off an attack on a medieval castle that was hosting "VIP" prisoners from France. This one is bound to become a movie!
The story starts off slow, because Stephen Harding goes into meticulous details about the brash Americans, the stoic Germans who struggled for their patriotic identity, and the French VIP prisoners would seemed to spend a lot of energy hating each other (they were drawn from harshly different political ideologies - imagine Obama, Ron Paul, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Cruz all forced to be prisoners in a small Austrian castle!). About halfway through though, it picks up nicely with all the different paths coming together. It was a fun read.
Here's an article from The Daily Caller about the book (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ether.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and, of course, the mandatory Amazon link " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;