The Last Battle

May, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Alps.

The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest battle of the war, when a small group of American tankers, led by Captain Lee, joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troops seeking to capture Castle Itter and execute the stronghold's VIP prisoners-a contentious group of French politicians, generals, and their wives and mistresses.

Based on official American, German, and French histories, personal memoirs, and author interviews, The Last Battle is the true story of the most improbable battle of World War II-a tale of unlikely allies, startling bravery, jittery suspense, and desperate combat between implacable enemies.