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This is a close-up look at the creation of the U.S. Army's first alpine division, made up of some of America's most elite skiers and climbers. It describes their nighttime mountain attack during the winter of 1945 on seemingly impenetrable German mountain fortifications.Jenkins, McKay is the author of 'Last Ridge The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe', published 2004 under ISBN 9780375759512 and ISBN 0375759514.
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