"On December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers smashed into American lines in the Ardennes. Most of the nearly 90,000 U.S. casualties occurred in the first three days of battle. The Germans poured through shattered defenses. Soldiers and civilians alike suffered grievously at the hands of Waffen SS units during their murderous thrust into Belgium and Luxembourg. The Battle of the Bulge was the single bloodiest combat the American Army fought in World War II. Now, sixty-five years later, four American soldiers who survived a massacre ordered by a fanatical SS officer return to Europe seeking revenge. What begins as a mission for final justice turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse that none of them anticipated"--P. [4] of cover.