The Boys of Winter by Charles J. Sanders

Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops during the Second World War. The true story of three young Depression-era ski champions and their heroic and tragic transformation from atheletes to infantrymen with the U.S. 10th Mountain Division. Saunders traces their journeys from childhood to ski championships and from training at Mount Rainier and Camp Hale, CO to the bloody battles against the Nazis in Italy's Appennine Mountains. Softcover Edition.