The Last Ridge
Subtitle: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: November 9, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780375759512
First sentence: BY DECEMBER 1944, the eighteen-month Allied effort to slit the soft underbelly of Europe had banged up against the last hard bone of the northern Appennine Mountains, a rugged line of peaks belting the width of northern Italy below the Po River valley.