"Germany's Operation Nordwind culminated in the Alsatian fields surrounding the Zorn River. The American 12th Armored Division and the German 10th Waffen SS Panzer Division squared off near the villages of Herrlisheim and Weyersheim. Eyewitness accounts by veterans from both sides and information from several print sources, casts a historical light on this crucial Second World War battle"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes maps of: Advance of 12th Armored Division into Lower Alsace; Task Force Rammer and Power Attack Waterworks and Herrlisheim, 8-12 January 1945; 12th Armored Division Attacks Offendorf, 16 January 1945; Herrlisheim, 1945; Battle of East Weyersheim, Afternoon of 19 January 1945; Battle of East Weyersheim, Night of 19-20 January 1945.

pt. 1. Roads to Alsace. Texas and Le Bec Hellouin, December 1943 -- Russia and Spokane, December 1941 -- Vienna and Fallingbostel, November 1942 -- German POWs and the Frundsberg Division, June 1943 -- Camp Barkeley and Russian -Occupied Poland, April 1944 -- Normandy, August 1944 -- Camp Shanks, New York, September 1944 -- Zutphen and the SS Empress of Australia, September 1944 -- Operation Market Garden, September 1944 -- The Salisbury Plain and St. P?lten, October 1944 -- Le Havre and beyond, November 1944 -- pt. 2. Alsace. Bining, Rohrbach and Roeschwoog, December 1944 -- Schweighausen and La Breymuhl, January 1945 -- Althussheim, January 1945 -- The Steinwald, January 1945 -- East of the Zorn River, January 1945 -- Herrlisheim, January 1945 -- Weyersheim, January 1945 -- The Bruchwald, January 1945 -- pt. 3. Beyond Alsace. Oberhoffen and Heidenheim, February-May 1945 -- Stalag XI-B and Berlin, April 1945 -- Michigan, Texas, Mississippi, Niedernhal, Vienna and Fachingen Lahn.