The Watch on the Bridge

The Watch on the Bridge , first published in 1959, is a fast-paced novel set in Europe near the closing days of World War II. While much of the book focuses on a U.S. soldier and a German woman he befriends, there are many combat scenes as observed from both the American and German sides. From the book's cover notes: February, 1945, and the German Wehrmacht everywhere in retreat before the advancing British and Americans, falling back on the Rhine, ready to cross that historic barrier, blow the