Video: Author Stephen Harding on ‘The Last Battle’ Rescue Mission

2/2/2016 • Interviews, Videos

(Img: Jerry Hutberg/U.S. Army/National Archives) The Last Battle, written by Stephen Harding, details a rescue mission in an Austrian castle, Itter, on May 4^th and 5^th of 1945. The mission, undertaken by both German and American soldiers, aimed to rescue political prisoners in danger of being executed by the Waffen-SS.

20th - 21st Century, Austria, Book, Interviews, World War II