Double Cross Fire

by James A. Huston; Anne Marshall Huston


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/1/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 220
ISBN : 9781403300317
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 220
ISBN : 9781403300324

About the Book

This is a tale of intrigue and love and battle. It involves a romance between a young American infantry captain and a Swiss schoolteacher who is working in the headquarters of Patton's Third Army, first in Nancy, France, and later in Luxembourg City. German agents infiltrate the American lines and create considerable havoc. In the final phases of the Third Army's counterattack, the Captain develops imaginative tactics to convert a rifle battalion into a machine-gun battalion for devastating firepower across snow-covered fields and through the frosty forests and villages of the Ardennes.


About the Author

James A. Huston holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Indiana University and the Ph.D. from New York University and had further post-graduate study at Oxford and Fribourg (Switzerland). He taught history at Purdue University for twenty-five years, with times out for service on the faculties of the Naval War College and the National War College. For twelve years, he was Dean of the College of Lynchburg College in Virginia.

During World War II he was an infantry battalion operations officer with the 134th Infantry, 35th Division, from Normandy across France then up to the Ardennes "Bulge" and on to the Elbe River in Germany.

Anne Marshall Huston holds B.A. and M.Ed. Degrees from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the Ed.D. from The University of Virginia. She has been an elementary education teacher, reading consultant and coordinator, and professor of education and human development at Lynchburg College. She has also taught graduate and postgraduate courses for William and Mary and The University of Virginia.

Currently they reside in Lynchburg, Virginia.