The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe by Mckay Jenkins - 2003

Random House, 2003. Hardback. Collectible: Very Good. 1st Edition (Stated) VERY GOOD+ in very good dust jacket. No marks. Unread. Binding is sound. . . . . . . A look at the U.S. Army's first alpine division, made up of some of America's most elite skiers and climbers, describes their nighttime mountain attacks on impenetrable German mountain fortifications during the winter of 1945. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART ONE: THE MOUNTAIN: 1.) Skiers -- 2.) Mountaineers -- 3.) Cascades and Ice Fields -- 4.) The Land of the Black Snow -- 5.) Climbing and Falling -- 6.) Optical Aleutian -- 7.) The March Up the Boot -- 8.) The D Series -- 9.) See Naples and Die ------ * PART TWO: THE ENEMY: 10.) Riva Ridge -- 11.) Mount Belvedere -- 12.) Mountain of Hope -- 13.) The Cruelest Month -- 14.) Across the Po and Into the Alps -- 15.) Sleeping in Mussolini's Bed