Description
Book SynopsisThe author was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. He gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. This book tells the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II.
Trade Review[A] well-balanced, often moving look at one man's war and every man's war.
* World War II *
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Foreword by Spencer C. Tucker
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Army Beckons
2. Basic Training at Camp Roberts
3. ASTP at the University of Oregon
4. Camp Cooke
5. Going Abroad
6. England
7. Forced March across Northern France
8. Entry into Battle
9. The Ambush at Noville
10. First and Second Drives to the Rhine
11. Bloody Easter
12. Bayreuth to Grafenwohr
13. Release of Concentration Camp Prisoners
14. Fierce Battle for the City of Regen
15. The Intensity of the Drive Continues
16. Mauthausen, Gusen I and Gusen II
17. Mass Surrender and Death March
18. Adjusting to Peacetime
19. Waiting to Go Home
20. Belgium Remembers: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge
21. Belgium Revisited, May 2000: Belgian Memorial Day
Bibliography
Index
