Nightmare in Herrlisheim

“The reader should not expect this book to be an account of glorious and decisive victory. It is rather the chronicle of a doomed from the start, bloody and humiliating defeat of a relatively small unit that, while it failed to accomplish its assigned mission, stubbornly refused to give up ground”(Introduction). Miller uses maps, photographs, unit histories, and personal recollections of men who were at Herrlisheim to tell the story of men who refused to give up.