Some called it the “Champagne Campaign,” but when 575,000 American Soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army landed on the Mediterranean coast of France in the fall of 1944, opening a third and largely forgotten southern front against Nazi Germany, few were toasting their arrival. Yet, in some of the fiercest battles of World War II, having marched right up to the heavily defended Rhine River border with Germany, the Seventh punctured the two most vaunted defensive fortifications of the war, the Maginot Line in France and the Siegfried Line in Germany. In the end, the Seventh’s 100th Infantry Division, once called a “Show Division” knitted with soldier-actors who marched in parades to promote war bonds and with men from a disbanded college recruitment program never intended for combat, advanced furthest east and emerged victorious as the only American division to hold its ground during the last planned German offensive of the war. The “Sons of Bitche,” as the 100th became known, captured 13,000 prisoners of war while liberating 400 towns and cities from Adolph Hitler’s depravation, before vanishing into relative historical anonymity. This moving historical fiction, inspired by the men of the 100th, arrives just in time for the 80th anniversary of their battlefield heroics during the final days of World War II.