An hour-by-hour reconstruction of the most dramatic and controversial battle of World War II. From the perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland, comes the epic struggle on an immense canvas. Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line.