44

World War II scholar Whiting here examines the events at the close of 1944, when Allied troops liberated France and began the invasion of Germany. Whiting focuses on the pressures faced by the fighting men during the war against Germany's final campaign, a time that saw fatigue, illness, atrocities committed by both sides, and 100,000 Allied desertions. '44 is a book that looks beyond the propaganda and tells the truth about the loss in morale and combat strain that the average soldier faced in that momentous year.