Thanks for the review.
I just got a copy recently, but haven't had a chance to read it. I had others in line ahead of it.
You might also like them.
First was "Curahee! A Sceaming Eagle At Normandy" by Donald R. Burgett.
It was first published in 1967, but re-released in 1999 with an intro by Stephen Ambrose.
Mr Ambrose's last paragraph says:
"There is much more in this outstanding book. I have read lots of books on the experience of combat from both World Wars, and this is by a longshot the best. Without Qualification."
With that intro, I had high hopes. I was not disappointed. The man's memory for detail is incredible. It's not a very long book, just under 200 pages, but it's packed with "good stuff".
It covers his enlistment, through training, on into approx D+10 at Normandy when he was wounded, then an Afterword.
The ending includes a speech from Eisenhower to the unit after returning to England. I won't spoil it by telling the details, but it is one speech that never made the papers. This alone is worth reading the book for, I felt.
The other book, which I'm reading now, is:
"Parachute Infantry, An American Paratrooper's Memior of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich" by David Kenyon Webster.
You probably recognize that name from "Band of Brothers". He was the Ivy Leaguer who wanted to be a writer. In the book "Band of Brothers", Ambrose quotes Webster's writings often. As I read it, I thought how nice it would be to read those memiors.
I found out recently that they had finally gotten published, and had to have it.
It's pretty good also, but in a different way from the first book I mentioned. It starts with arriving in England and goes from there.
It's another that I'm happy I got.
In addition to "Beyond Band of Brothers" I also have another Major Winters book waiting in the wings: "Biggest Brother, The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers" by Larry Alexander.
I just got a copy recently, but haven't had a chance to read it. I had others in line ahead of it.
You might also like them.
First was "Curahee! A Sceaming Eagle At Normandy" by Donald R. Burgett.
It was first published in 1967, but re-released in 1999 with an intro by Stephen Ambrose.
Mr Ambrose's last paragraph says:
"There is much more in this outstanding book. I have read lots of books on the experience of combat from both World Wars, and this is by a longshot the best. Without Qualification."
With that intro, I had high hopes. I was not disappointed. The man's memory for detail is incredible. It's not a very long book, just under 200 pages, but it's packed with "good stuff".
It covers his enlistment, through training, on into approx D+10 at Normandy when he was wounded, then an Afterword.
The ending includes a speech from Eisenhower to the unit after returning to England. I won't spoil it by telling the details, but it is one speech that never made the papers. This alone is worth reading the book for, I felt.
The other book, which I'm reading now, is:
"Parachute Infantry, An American Paratrooper's Memior of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich" by David Kenyon Webster.
You probably recognize that name from "Band of Brothers". He was the Ivy Leaguer who wanted to be a writer. In the book "Band of Brothers", Ambrose quotes Webster's writings often. As I read it, I thought how nice it would be to read those memiors.
I found out recently that they had finally gotten published, and had to have it.
It's pretty good also, but in a different way from the first book I mentioned. It starts with arriving in England and goes from there.
It's another that I'm happy I got.
In addition to "Beyond Band of Brothers" I also have another Major Winters book waiting in the wings: "Biggest Brother, The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers" by Larry Alexander.
