Airborne : the combat story of Ed Shames of Easy Company by Gardner, Ian (Historian), author instant download

Airborne : the combat story of Ed Shames of Easy Company by Gardner, Ian (Historian), author instant download

295 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, \"Colonel Ed Shames is that rare man who can call himself a true warrior. A member of Easy Company of Band of Brothers fame, Shames saw combat in some of the most ferocious battles of World War II. From jumping behind the lines of Normandy on D-Day with the 101st Airborne Division, to the near victory of Operation Market Garden, to the legendary stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Shames fought his way across Europe and into Germany itself.\"--Amazon.com, Includes bibliographical references and index, \"Take the A Train\" -- \"Beyond golden fields\" Ramsbury, England -- \"The other side of tomorrow\" The marshaling area, Exeter -- \"The river runs red\" D-Day, the wooden bridges at Brevands -- \"Five seconds to forget\" England, August 1944 -- \"Bullets from the sun\" The invasion from the Netherlands -- \"Dead men's shoes\" Zeeland and Tilburg -- \"The bucket list\" The Island, Fall 1944 -- \"The rain drank champagne\" Mourmelon-le-Grand, France -- \"Faith and justice\" The Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne -- \"Northwind\" Haguenau and the Colmar Pocket -- \"Ruhr pocket\" Western Germany, April 3-24, 1945 -- \"Last stand\" Berchtesgaden and Austria -- \"Ameritocracy\" Life after war