The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe -- McKay Jenkins, Paperback

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The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe -- McKay Jenkins, PaperbackWhen World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939 40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier named Charles Minot "Minnie" Dole convinced the United States Army to let him recruit an extraordinary assortment of European expatriates, wealthy ski bums, mountaineers, and thrill seekers and form them into

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