Eagle of the Ardennes

About the Book

You are fighting desperately against Adolf Hitler’s most merciless force: the Waffen-SS. You are also fighting the harshest European winter on record, incompetent leadership at varying levels of command, and a strained and sometimes corrupt supply system that deprives you of desperately needed winter clothing, food, and ammunition. Your First Sergeant is a shirker and coward who hates you. Your company commander is timid and makes poor decisions or avoids them altogether. The enemy aims cannon fire at you each time you leave your foxhole to relieve yourself. You have dysentery. Your feet are frozen. You have a respiratory infection and a fever. Yet you will not be evacuated from the front lines to a field hospital. Your friends are suffering horrific wounds and dying violently all around you. Some even freeze to death. All this, and you have not yet reached your twentieth birthday. Chances are, you won’t.

About the Author

Russell Greer is a native of Columbus, Georgia and a 1980 graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing. He also holds a Master of Education Degree in Secondary History Education from Columbus State University (1999).

Mr. Greer is a former U.S. Air Force officer, having received his commission through Air Force ROTC Detachment 160 at the University of Georgia. He attended USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training and earned his wings at Vance AFB, Oklahoma in 1981. Subsequently, he flew the B-52 at Loring AFB, Maine and Andersen AFB, Guam, before returning to Vance AFB as a T-37 Instructor Pilot.

Subsequent to his Air Force service, Mr. Greer worked briefly in the corporate world before obtaining his Georgia teaching certification. He taught social studies in Georgia public high schools, as well serving as an adjunct professor of history at Columbus State University, Reinhardt University, and Georgia Northwestern Technical College until his retirement in 2017.

The author is currently active in the Cobb County Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Air Force's Civilian Auxiliary.

Mr. Greer currently resides in Woodstock, Georgia with his wife, Karen.