When Trumpets Fade — 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 sergeant and sent back into the killing ground.
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-quarters fighting. Military historians have called it the Western Front's most futile battle — a costly sideshow while Patton's Third Army drove into Germany elsewhere.