In this third volume of the Sgt. Smith World War II Trilogy we follow First Squad from the bloody beach at Omaha to the hell of the Huertgen Forest as the Fighting First battles its way across France and into Germany. Smith and his men are veterans now, bloodied in Africa, their combat skills honed in Sicily. But the road ahead is still a long one and fraught with danger and there are still a few more German Divisions that will learn to fear the Big Red One. There is nothing to prove now, there is only survival.