Synopsis:
The Easy Company’s commanding officer, Richard Winters, is haunted by his memory of shooting a German soldier at close range on a risky—but successful—mission over a Dutch dike. A weekend’s leave in Paris gives a good sense of the importance of leave for G.I.’s and for the way they experienced Paris. Easy Company is now stationed in Mourmelon, France, and is ordered out to defend the Allied line against a German counterattack in Belgium’s Ardennes Forest. This contest, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, sees the Allies head into the bitter winter with inadequate supplies of ammunition and medical goods and generally ill- equipped for the long, entrenched battle ahead. The Axis counterattack is ultimately rebuffed, but not without the Allies suffering some 77,000 casualties.
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