The last ridge : the epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the assault on Hitler's Europe
Summary
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. Full description
- Prologue: The Northern Apennines, Winter 1944
- Ch. 1.
- Skiers
- Ch. 2.
- Mountaineers
- Ch. 3.
- Cascades and Ice Fields
- Ch. 4.
- The Land of the Black Snow
- Ch. 5.
- Climbing and Falling
- Ch. 6.
- Optical Aleutian
- Ch. 7.
- The March Up the Boot
- Ch. 8.
- The D Series
- Ch. 9.
- See Naples and Die
- Ch. 10.
- Riva Ridge
- Ch. 11.
- Mount Belvedere
- Ch. 12.
- Mountain of Hope
- Ch. 13.
- The Cruelest Month
- Ch. 14.
- Across the Po and Into the Alps
- Ch. 15.
- Sleeping in Mussolini's Bed.