On the left on the dust cover is General Maurice Rose, who commanded the 3rd Armored Division. As was customary, two combat teams were traveling on parallel routes as we approached Paderborn, the headquarters of the Waffen SS, the elite troops of the German Wehrmacht. General Rose was crisscrossing the terrain from one column to the other when he encountered an isolated pocket of Waffen SSers, who prepared to take him captive. As he removed his shoulder holster with its 45 caliber weapon, they machine gunned him and killed him which was a sad loss for the division. Several days later on March...