The Ghost Front

In June, 1944, Tom and Andy Croft, Eighteen-year-old twins, enlisted in the 106th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. They believed, as did the Allied Forces and Army intelligence, that the Germans had been permanently put to rout after the Normandy Invasion. It seemed a military impossibility that the Third Reich could plan—much less launch—a counteroffensive.
And the, on December 16,1944, Hitler's army broke through the thin line of American defense provided by the 106th Division in the Ardennes mountains. The Battle of the Bulge had begun.
Suddenly, Tom and Andy found themselves part, not of a victorious army, but of an army whose lines had been broken, whose communications had been all but destroyed, and whose commanding show more headquarters had less of an idea about what was going on than did the small bands of men roaming the countryside in search of leadership.
Before the German counteroffensive began, Tom and Andy had become separated. For the first time in their lives, in the chaos that followed the enemy breakthrough, each was on his own. This is the story of their separate experiences during the first days of the Battle of the Bulge. show less