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Loading... The Second Objective (2007)by Mark Frost
None. Interesting historical context from the time leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in WW II. The ending was aa bit of a stretch but for the most part I really enjoyed this book. (  ) EctopicBrain | Jul 31, 2012 |  i really enjoyed this book. i wasn't aware that it was mostly fact/based on truth, however you want to put it. i recognized the names and different things and wondered the further i got into it but there you go. this is a bit of history (mostly) that is written well enough it reads completely like a story. the author does a good job at making you feel it and really see what and where they are. i also liked the afterwords that go over what is true and what isn't. i love when they do this and it's getting to be more common which is nice. this story is like the back drop to the battle of the bulge . skorzenys 150 panzer brigade. if you are interested in that and even if not because it's a smothe very well written story, i highly recommend. (  ) krushkelsey | Aug 15, 2011 | World War II, fiction, army, history, military, historical, raids, battles, Germany, Western Front, war stories, suspense  gfyfe | Aug 26, 2009 | Great page turner. It satisfied my love for historical fiction and suspense/thriller in one book. Would make a good movie. ( ) JoanieS | May 28, 2009 | This evocative World War II espionage thriller deftly mixes a well-realized cast and an expertly crafted plot that hurdles toward a white-knuckled climax. With defeat near, the Nazis send a secret brigade to infiltrate the advancing Allied Forces. Among them is an elite unit, led by a charismatic, ruthless SS officer with a top-secret second objective. Readers may also enjoy Ken Follett’s The Eye of the Needle, December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith, and Jeffery Deaver’s Garden of Beasts. (  ) thereadinglist | Jun 3, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they’ll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler’s Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive. And from those men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group, made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission -- the second objective -- which, if completed, not only would change the course of the war, but would change the course of history.
Filled with real characters and details only recently released by the United States military, The Second Objective is historical fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its most compulsively readable.
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"A ray of light penetrates Western European skies for the first time since the beginning of World War II, as the Allies reach the borders of Germany and victory appears at hand. As part of his last desperate offensive to halt the advancing Americans, Hitler dispatches a company of English-speaking Nazi commandos on an even more treacherous secret assignment of assassination that could change the course of history. In a chain of furious action during the Battle of the Bulge, all of his assassins are killed or executed...all but two who were never accounted for. There ends the historical record." "Frost picks up where these facts leave off and weaves a narrative around these last two commandos: one the Brooklyn-born son of German parents, haunted by his American heritage, and the other a charismatic sociopath from the depraved ranks of the SS. Close on their trail is a veteran NYPD homicide-detective-turned-military-police-investigator, who soon finds himself faced with an impossible choice on which the outcome of the entire conflict depends."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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