A really good book about how a young man was thrust into a no-win situation yet he handle it as a warrior. What a lot of people don’t know about the beginning of the Battle of the Budlge was that most of the front-line troops at the beginning were green with no combat experience, for Marshall and some of the rest were not expecting a German attack. People only think of Bastogne and the 101st which was heroic but there were many troops, and grunts that actually delayed the advancement of the Germans and this young Captain was a leader of some of those men. This was a very good book and it is always tough for me for my father fought in the Buldge with the 82nd which was fighting north of Bastogne so the Germans would not get to the fuel supply and some other towns. A very good book.