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The Eighty-Five Days

The Story of the Battle of Scheldt

by Capt. R. W. Thompson · 2017

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ISBN: 1787206793 9781787206793

Category: History / Military / United States

Page count: 206

An explosive story of blunders and courage in the battle that might have brought victory in Europe in 1944. <br> "I believe my book could be described as an attempt at an heroic history of a very long and important battle, which is truly a series of battles. All the events 'depicted' in it happened, and if I have erred it has been on the side of understatement, for heroism often is beyond the ordinary use of prose, and if one feels unable to express it beyond a doubt it is better to let it speak for itself in the deed...."—Foreword