After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulge. The Führer will spare nothing to preserve his twisted vision of a &ldquo;Thousand Year Reich,&rdquo; but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust. <i>No Less Than Victory</i> is a riveting account presented through the eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, and the soldiers who struggled face-to-face with their enemy, as well as from the vantage point of Germany&rsquo;s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler&rsquo;s golden boy, Albert Speer. Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman&rsquo;s dreams.