The Germans threw some 700 men, in three waves, at Lyle Bouck and 17 other Americans.
The GIs had their orders. "They were told to hold at all costs. Basically that meant 'until you get killed or taken prisoner,'" says Alex Kershaw, whose new book, "The Longest Winter," recounts the story of Bouck's platoon.
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