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Dog Company : the boys of Pointe Du Hoc--the Rangers who accomplished D-Day's toughest mission and led the way across Europe / Patrick K. O'Donnell.

by O'Donnell, Patrick K., 1969-

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Boston : Da Capo Press, c2012.

United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1306/2012289043-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1306/2012289043-d.html

9780306820298 (hbk.)

0306820293 (hbk.)

9780306822643 (pbk.)

0306822644 (pbk.)

xiv, 305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Dog company -- "Rangers? bullshit!" -- Big Jim -- Fort Pierce and overseas -- Bude -- The needles -- The mission -- Final preparations -- A tough spot for a landing -- "Into the valley of death" -- "They sky was burning" -- The landing -- The climb -- Atop the fortress - Bunkers and farms -- The guns of Pointe du Hoc -- Swimmers -- The first counterattack -- Nighttime attacks -- June 7 -- The relief of Pointe du Hoc -- Survivors -- The assault on Brest -- Hill 63 -- The fabulous four -- Interlude -- A factory of death -- Moving out -- Bergstein -- counterattack -- The church -- The charge -- Hill 400 -- Their "longest day" -- Nightfall -- December 8 -- Final Assault on Bergstein -- Relief finally arrives -- The bulge -- Back to Hürtgen -- Crossing the Roer -- The last act.

An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company-- Dog Company-- who were in the right place at the right time: from D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds.

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