SEVEN DAYS IN JANUARY With the 6th SS-Mountain Division in Operation Nordwind

299 pages, illustrations

After three brutal years of combat with the Russians in northern Karelia, author Wolf T. Zoepf's Waffen-SS mountain unit packed up and headed homeward in the last days of 1944 to secure the mountain town of Wingen-sur-Moder.  The U.S. 70th Infantry Division was there, too.  The week of fighting covered in this book consisted of numerous small but bloody raids in the snow-covered hills in and around the village.  It was the ultimate test of Arctic combat expertise.  

These men fought night and day, endlessly gaining and losing ground for a solid week.  The descriptions of minute-by-minute events that lead to the explosive action that fills these pages will put you on the edge of your seat.