Megellas, James.

Summary: What World War II Lieutenant Megellas's memoir lacks in narrative force and elegance it makes up for in its unvarnished contribution to the historical record. Megellas was a senior at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis. during the Pearl Harbor attack; barely six months later, he had reported for duty and soon was enlisted in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. Landing in Italy on the eve of the Anzio...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003

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Brotherton, Marcus.

Summary: From the co-author of "Call of Duty" comes a new collection of untold stories from the legendary Easy Company, the military unit immortalized in "Band of Brothers."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2009

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Malarkey, Don

Summary: Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

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Alexander, Larry

Summary: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II. Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sergeant Forrest Guth, Alexander crosses an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010

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Winters, Richard D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2006

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Wurst, Spencer F. (Spencer Free)

Contents: Enlistment and premobilization training, 112th infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard -- Mobilization, basic, and small unit training -- Company, battalion, regimental, and First Army maneuvers, 1941 -- Units in turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern training camps, and war-time expansion -- From the 112th infantry to parachute school, Fort Benning -- First assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2004

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Garland, Joseph E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Protean Press 2008

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Guarnere, William.

Summary: Guarnere gives a gripping account of D-day from the partrooper's perspective. In vivid detail, Guarnere and Heffron re-create dropping into Holland to capture the roads and bridges between Eindhoven and Arnhem, known as Hell's Highway. Through much of 1944 the friends fought side by side--until Guarnere lost his right leg in the Battle of the Bulge and was sent home. Heffron went on to liberate...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2007

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Edwards, Donald A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: D.A. Edwards 1994

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McKenzie, John D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 2000

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Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)

Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996

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Langrehr, Henry

Summary: Chronicles the firsthand experiences of a paratrooper who survived the Allied Invasion of Normandy and escaped imprisonment in a Nazi work camp before making his way to freedom.$5NjBwBT

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Shaw, Art

Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Summary: Chronicles the remarkable story of the legendary alpine fighting force known as the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Their claim to fame began during World War II when the U.S. Army advanced on the Germans who were entrenched in Italy's heavily fortified mountaintops. After losing 15,000 soldiers attempting to capture this critical high ground, the U.S. Army brass called up the 10th, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2008

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Washburne, Seth P.

Summary: A highly-detailed history of the first, and arguably the best ever, Army troop carrier squadron in the South Pacific. The Thirsty 13th shows then-and-now aerial photos of all four U.S. camps, four main overseas camps, and three of four additional overseas camps; shows the airfields used, the aircraft by serial number, a complete roster, their missions, and what they did for fun. More than 2,000...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thirsty 13th LLC 2011

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LoFaro, Guy.

Summary: In the midst of the battle of the Bulge, there occurred on exchange that, perhaps more than any other, exemplifies the attitude of the troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. It was 22 December 1944. The U.S. First Army was still in headlong retreat from the onrushing panzers that were seemingly everywhere. A column of American tanks came upon a lone bazooka gunner in a snow-covered...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011

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Sisson, Frank

Summary: Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Patton's death, a Third Army soldier's firsthand account of his service beside the history-shaping general relates his participation in key events, including the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020

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Burgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

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Dole, Robert J.

Summary: The former U.S. Senate Republican leader recounts his experiences of serving with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, during which he suffered a dangerous wound that resulted in a three-year struggle for survival.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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Green, Anne Bosanko

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 1989

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Burgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)

Summary: In December 1944, Hitler launched a desperate massive counterstrike at the Allies, with thirty-eight German divisions slamming through American lines. Then the 101st Airborne was thrown into the fight. Fresh from seventy-two brutal days of combat in Holland, with little food and ammunition, the Screaming Eagles struck back-and stunned the German forces. Then the real battle for the town of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000

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Burgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 1999

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Murphy, Frank D.

Summary: ""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air....

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023

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Hilbert, Charles Roy

Summary: Includes war narrative, biographies of fellow soldiers and return visit to Okinawa in 1995.

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Publisher / Publication Date: C.R. Hilbert 1999

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