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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

An undertaking as complex as the Front Lines trilogy is not the work of one writer alone. I may be the guy in the foxhole (so to speak), but I have my own sergeants, officers, and, thankfully, support troops.

So, some thanks are in order: to Kelsey Horton and Mabel Hsu for their editorial support; to Jill Amack and Kathryn Silsand, the copy editors who saved me so much embarrassment; Joel Tippie and Amy Ryan, who designed the book; Tina Cameron in production; Bess Braswell, the marketing director; and the hardest-working woman in publicity, Ro Romanello.

Above all, of course, is Katherine Tegen, my editor, publisher, and friend. None of this happens without Tegen.

Outside of HarperCollins, I’d like to thank Stella Paskins, my UK editor, and their equivalents to the above listed.

And of course, Steve Sheppard at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and same, who is my lawyer, my pal, the guy you talk to about rights for this or any of my books, and the guy assigned to talking me down off ledges.

PHOTO GLOSSARY

Omaha Beach, D-day (Wiki Commons)

LST (Landing Ship Tank) unloading a truck at Omaha Beach (Wiki Commons)

The ill-fated Sherman-DD with its flotation skirt not inflated

(Wiki Commons)

P-51 “Mustang,” the Cadillac of the Air. Widely considered the best fighter plane of WW2. (Wiki Commons)

Panzerfausts, the basic German infantry anti-tank weapon (Author photo)

American soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge (Wiki Commons)

Oradour-sur-Glane today. General and future president Charles DeGaulle ordered it to be left as a permanent memorial. (Author photo)

SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, responsible for the Oradour massacre (German file photo)

The Hürtgen Forest (Wiki Commons)

American prisoners murdered by the SS (Wiki Commons)

P-38 Lightning, a deadly American ground-attack fighter (Creative Commons)

P-47 Thunderbolt, a workhorse of ground attack (Creative Commons)

American combat medics at work (Science Photo)

Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg (Author photo)

Sten gun, British commando submachine gun (ShutterStock)

Omaha Beach today (ShutterStock)

The German city of Dresden after Allied bombing

(Public domain, US Army)

Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley view remains at Ohrdruf, a satellite of Buchenwald. (Public domain, US Army)

US military cemetery, Belgium

(Wiki Commons)

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