This Week on History Happy Hour: In January 1945, as the Battle of the Bulge was coming to an end, the 29th Division readied itself to be at the point of the fourth Allied offensive in eight months.  There, along the banks of the Roer River, is where volume five of Joe Balkoski’s epic series on the 29th gets under way.

In this encore episode, Joe joins us for his sixth History Happy Hour to talk about that book, The Last Roll Call: The 29th Intantry Division Victorious, 1945, and the many decades he has spent telling the story of the 29th.

Joe Balkoski is a renowned American military historian who has authored eight books on American involvement in the ETO during World War II. This includes a five-volume series on the history of the 29th Infantry Division in World War II and a two-volume set on American participation in the D-Day invasion. He has appeared as a D-Day expert on MSNBC, and his work has been praised by Joe Scarborough, the New York Post, World War II Magazine, and others.