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**Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's __The Last Hill__ is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.** They were known as "Rudder's Rangers," the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler's homeland at last. In the process, Rudder was given two objectives: Take Hill 400 . . . and hold the hill by any means possible. To the last man, if necessary. The battle-hardened battalion had no idea that several Wehrmacht regiments, who greatly outnumbered the Rangers, had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two determined forces was one of the bloodiest and most costly encounters of World War II. Castle Hill, the imposing 1320-foot mini-mountain the American Rangers simply called Hill 400, was the gateway to a desperate Nazi Germany. Several entire American divisions had already been repulsed by the last hill's dug-in defenders as—unknown to the Allies—the height was the key to Adolf Hitler's last-minute plans for a massive counterattack to smash through the American lines in what would become k

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Author

Bob Drury; Tom Clavin

Publisher

St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250247179

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (438 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14