Winner Take All

Book Summary WINNER TAKE ALL C.W. Schuler The novel begins in Czechoslovakia on the day the shooting stopped in the European Theater of Operations, May 8, 1945, and ends on August 8, two days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The narrative follows a U.S Army Infantry Battalion as it disengages from its combat mission and moves back across the border into Germany. Along the newly established Czech border the Battalion occupies an administrative district approximating the area of an American county where they are responsible for internal security within their zone of operation. In addition the Battalion is required to monitor the flood of refugees crossing the border as they attempt to escape the Czech police and the Soviet army advancing from the East. The former German forced labor camps in the area, whose occupants are now officially designated