(PRLeap.com) BITCHE FRANCE, February 18, 2026⎯The French-language edition of the new historical-fiction, The Sons Of Bitche, inspired by the World War II heroics of the U.S. 100th Infantry Division in France, is now available for sale.Centered on the critical, yet nearly forgotten, third and southern front against Hitler, The Sons Of Bitche tracks the advance of the American Army division through Nazi-occupied Fort Schiesseck of the vaunted Maginot line, fighting in sub-zero temperatures from foxholes in frighteningly close combat in the Vosges Mountains just outside Bitche, before liberating the town in March, 1945.
The book captures the desperation of the French Alsatians and Mosellans, forced to endure more than four years of Nazi domination and atrocities amid the ensuing hardships of occupation in the mountains and plains just west of the Rhine River border with Germany. Through the eyes of a seven-year-old French boy in 1945, who saw the first American tanks streaming into his hometown, and through the tears of a local French-American living in Bitche, depicted in newspapers all over the world by an iconic photograph of an American flag sewn by his wife that flew over the battered town after its liberation, the book tells a colorful story of triumph over tragedy.
"The Sons Of Bitche tells a gripping story from within the shadows of World War II history, magnificently capturing the human side of the 100th Infantry Division's vicious fighting in eastern France and the plight of the French citizens living under Nazi rule," said retired Lt. General Kevin Campbell, former Chief of Staff of the United States Strategic Command.
"The Sons of Bitche is the fascinating story of the U.S. soldiers, French civilians and German troops caught up in one of the lesser known, but no less brutal series of World War II battles, including the terrible tragedies faced by the local populace amid the horrors of occupation," said retired Lt. General Paul T. Mikolashek, former Commanding General of the U.S. Third Army, which during World War II was commanded by General George S. Patton.
The author's father served with the U.S. 100th Infantry Division as a combat engineer in France and Germany during World War II. Later known as the "Sons of Bitche," after one of 400 towns and cities they liberated, the 100th ultimately was the only U.S. division to hold their ground, despite being outnumbered 3-to-1 at the center of the line, during the last coordinated German offensive of the war, Operation Nordwind.
The Sons Of Bitche was first published in English in January, 2025. The French-language edition is now available for purchase at: https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/products/the-sons-of-bitche-french-version
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