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A 4 page review of "The Longest Winter" by Alex Kershaw. No additional sources cited.
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Bulge. It is a very intriguing and suspenseful look at one of WWIIs most decorated platoons. The following paper reviews Kershaws work. The Longest Winter The troop that Kershaw
discusses was a group of eighteen men who were under the command of a young 21 year old man, lieutenant Lyle Bouck. These men were the only ones responsible for
defending one particular hill, a very vital hill it seems from a strategic standpoint. They were defending the hill from the Germans and as they sat there that one single
day they were ultimately successful in keeping three different assaults from taking the hill. They were also responsible for killing more than five hundred Germans during this particular day.
It was only when they ran out of ammunition that they gave up. They had no other choice but to surrender to the Germans at that point and they became
POWs wherein their most difficult experiences began. They were surely not liked, not just because they were not Germans, but because they had been so successful in killing so many
Germans. Kershaws book discusses all of these aspects, from battle to imprisonment. From this brief examination we can clearly see, first off, that the story of this handful of
men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity as warfare
required certain skills and determination of character. All of these men went from battle to POW to ultimate survival, to be awarded for their valor many decades later. His
story reads like a novel in that there are conversations and it is not laid out like a history book. We see this in the following: "The officer glared and
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