Parachute infantry: an American paratrooper's memoir of D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich

An English literature major at Harvard with a talent for writing, twenty-one-year-old David Kenyon Webster volunteered for duty in the U.S. Army's parachute infantry in 1943 with the aim of seeing combat firsthand and then describing his experiences. His introduction to warfare came at the inva...

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1. Verfasser: Webster, David K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge u.a. Louisiana State Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:1. print.
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Zusammenfassung:An English literature major at Harvard with a talent for writing, twenty-one-year-old David Kenyon Webster volunteered for duty in the U.S. Army's parachute infantry in 1943 with the aim of seeing combat firsthand and then describing his experiences. His introduction to warfare came at the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944
Webster went on to see considerable action in the next two years, serving as a combat infantryman in the campaign through northwest Europe, during which he was twice wounded. He wrote Parachute Infantry a short time after the war, relying on his letters home and recollections he penned right after his discharge, making his memoir much closer to the war than most such works
With its abundant dialogue, charged descriptions of places and events, and skillful evocation of emotions, Webster's narrative resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel
Beschreibung:XX, 262 S. Ill.
ISBN:0807119016

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