01476cam a2200301 4500 212598242 TxAuBib 20150414120000.0 100603s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010293682 9780345497932 pbk. 0345497937 pbk. (OCoLC)449844248 TxAuBib Shaara, Jeff, 1952- No less than victory : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara. Book 3 of the World War II Series. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2010. xxiii, 449 p. : maps ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxii]-xxiii). After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted. 20150414. World War, 1939-1945 Europe, Western Fiction. Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 Fiction. Historical fiction. TXCMR