Technical comments and corrections were made by (in alphabetical order) Mark Acres, Rosemary Bergman Althoff, Fred Baxter, Mark Biniecki, Robert Dustrude (1st Lt. USAAF Ret), Tony Harrison, Peter Jedicke, E. W. Kelly
(LtCol USA Ret), Gerard Marzilli, Jr., Donald E. Niles, Sr., Andy Nunez, Rory Patterson, Dan Rinehart, Professor Jan Robin, Kevin Rose, and Mark Vetter. Any errors remaining, of course, are the sole responsibility and fault of the authors.
Friendship, support, and wise counsel came from many sources, notably (also in alphabetical order) Ralph Benko (who loaned his name for a Soviet tank general), Frank Chadwick (whose tireless friendship and scholarship makes him truly One To Foresee For One), Moshe Feder (who said many nice things without having to do so), Elle Furlong (who unraveled the mysteries of the Russian patronymic and taught us several Russian swear words), S. Keith Keel (designer of the Dobsonbooks Web site), Ted Leemann (for advice on marketing, character, and project management), Humayun Mirza (for insight into the Desert Fox and many other players of the period), and Charlotte Porter (for lending her name and a few inside jokes to our own favorite AP guy, Chuck “No Relation” Porter).
We thank our families, especially our wives, Christine Niles and Deborah Dobson, for their patience, love, and support throughout this project.
The Web site at www.dobsonbooks.com has information, bibliographic citations, comments, and game scenarios for Douglas Niles’ SPI/TSR boardgames ONSLAUGHT: D-DAY TO THE RHINETM and WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONSTM.
Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson
11 September 2001 to 31 January 2003
Delavan, Wisconsin, and Bethesda, Maryland
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2003 by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Cartography by William W. Connors
A Forge Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
www.tor-forge.com
eISBN 9781466818347
First eBook Edition : March 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Niles, Douglas.
Fox at the front / Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: Fox on the Rhine.
“A Forge book”—T.p. verso.
PS3564.I375F68 2003
813’ .54—dc21
2003049141
First Edition: November 2003