<LI>Profiles of the 98 German soldiers--out of millions--who received both the Knight's Cross (for extreme bravery) and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold (for at least 50 days of hand-to-hand fighting) during World War II <LI>Includes soldiers from the Army, Luftwaffe, and Waffen SS <LI>Definitive reference with exciting narrative and exhaustive footnotes <LI>Packed with hundreds of photos, many of them not available elsewhere</LI>