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A 1998 HBO film about a sole survivor of a battle in the Hurtgen Forest who is promoted against his will and forced back into combat. A bleak study of a man for whom survival instinct directly conflicts with military duty — and heroism means something entirely different.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest — one of the US Army's costliest and least-remembered campaigns — as a soldier who survived through cowardice is promoted to ser...
The Hürtgen Forest campaign (September 1944 – February 1945) cost the US Army 33,000 casualties for minimal strategic gain. The dense forest negated American firepower advantages and armour, resulting in brutal close-...
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