Messengers of the lost battalion: the heroic 551st and the turning of the tide at the Battle of the Bulge

And finally, how could the handful of frostbitten, bloodstained renegades that were the 551st's walking wounded actually take Rochelinval and win the day? Within hours of the 551st victory at Rochelinval, the last German Tiger tank had run out of fuel, Hitler's last chilling counteroffensive of the war was over, and the German Army was in full and final retreat. But Messengers of the Lost Battalion is more than an engaging history and powerful war story; it is also a moving tale about a son's search for his father - a soldier who delivered the messages of the battalion by motorbike.

  • OCLC #: 35548987
  • ISBN #:
    • 0684828049
    • 9780684828046
  • Call #: D756.5.A7O74 1997
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, ©1997.
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 408 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  • Contents:
    • The Old Men Return: Europe, August 1989
    • Band of outsiders
    • "And there is it
    • my tree!"
    • "Always the farthest one back"
    • A lonely hutch
    • Peace in Nice
    • We are what we remember
    • Getting my orders down deep
    • Hello, Earth!: Training to be Airborne
    • Contact
    • A family steeped in war
    • Geronimo!
    • The Frying Pan
    • Panama: the First (Secret) Mission
    • Freaks of nature
    • The Panama City riot
    • Spotlight's rebellion
    • A shadow-box of lepers
    • Martinique
    • Foreboding: the Night Jump Drownings at Mackall
    • The pups' death
    • The glider jumps
    • Joerg departs
    • "You're all rabble!"
    • "His legs were tangled in tree stumps"
    • The spared
    • The secret inquest
    • My father's hollow egg
    • War at Last: Operation Dragoon into Southern France
    • GOYA! GOYA! GOYA!
    • "All of us are going to get it"
    • Rome
    • The last communion before the invasion
    • "Jacques, there are three Americans by the pond"
    • The capture of Draguignan
    • First to Nice
    • Holding the Crags: Ski Patrol in the Maritime Alps
    • Shellings on the border
    • My father the messenger
    • Cards and nerves
    • To Laon
    • Speartip: at the Battle of the Bulge
    • Huempfner's one-man war
    • A bloody shirt
    • Hitler rolls the dice
    • The GOYAs face the 1st SS Panzers
    • Christmas at Ster
    • "He's fixing to sacrifice us"
    • Night raid on Noirefontaine
    • The counteroffensive hatched
    • January 3, 1945
    • January 4: The bayonet attack
    • January 5: Russians in Belgium
    • January 6: The fateful call
    • Tall Snow: Death at Rochelinval
    • "A large spark flashed on his helmet"
    • The infant
    • The disbandment
    • No record, no honors
    • To the end of the line unknown
    • Home
    • Abyss of peace
    • A GOYA in 'Nam
    • The unspeakable
    • A happy death.