Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy. General George Patton and the other top U.S. commanders needed an officer who knew how to break the impasse, and they selected Maurice Rose. The son of a rabbi, Rose was intensely private and never sought publicity; on the battlefield, he led from the front. From Normandy to the final charge across Germany, Daniel Bolger recounts how Rose's deadly division of tanks blasted through enemy lines—a triumph he did not live to see completed.