"The Last Battle" tells the little-known story of U.S., German soldiers fighting side-by-side in World War II

In the final days of World War II in Austria, German and American forces teamed up to rescue a group of French prisoners from hard-core elements of the Waffen-SS. My review of Stephen Harding's "The Last Battle" for the San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/28/tp-after-hitlers-death-an-unlikely-alliance/