Eighty-Five Days

An explosive story of blunders and courage in the battle that might have brought victory in Europe in 1944.&quote;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....&quote;-Foreword