Comments: Softcover, 328 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4728-1938-3
Price: $15
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
From the publisher:
From the publisher: With an incredible World War II combat record that includes parachuting into Normandy on D-Day, service during Operation Market-Garden, at Bastogne, and finally in Germany, Ed Shames was involved in some of the most important battles of the war. A member of the legendary “Band of Brothers,” Shames’ wartime story, in his own words and recollections, are a personal account that gives a glimpse into the ferocious fighting and fellowship of Easy Company in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The first member of his outfit to enter Dachau concentration camp just days after its liberation, Shames ended the war in the bombed-out shell of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, surrounded by his comrades in arms. It was there he appropriated a bottle of Hitler’s own cognac, which Shames held for 17 years before opening for a triumphal toast on the occasion of his son’s Bar Mitzvah.
Author of Tonight We Die As Men, Gardner tells the phenomenal story of a young lieutenant during World War II and his journey from Elkins, W.Va., through grueling training at Toccoa, Ga., and ultimately to the defeat of the Third Reich.
FSM says:
World War II history buffs will always find something new in a comprehensive first-hand account of a paratrooper and his comrades in arms who dropped into Normandy and marched to Germany and victory.