The Boys of Winter - Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War (Paperback, New edition)

The Boys of Winter, new in paperback, tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis. Ullr Award-winner, International Ski History Association. "Sanders . . . puts a personal face on the 10th Mountain Division and connects the reader more intimately to their story. It was, and is, a compelling story, and Sanders tells it well." --Tom Miller, www.Military.com "Perfectly captures the spirit of the men who made the division what it was." --John Imbrie, 10th Mountain Division Historian "A great companion for any [ski] trip." --Powder, Editor's Choice "Immensely valuable and substantial" --International Ski History Assoc.