Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich (Dell War Series) - Softcover

David Kenyon Webster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440240905 ISBN 13: 9780440240907

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, 2008

Synopsis

David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel.

From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid, varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving, boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war—how men fight it, survive it, and remember it.
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Review:

"Webster left this gutsy, sometimes bemused and sometimes angry memoir behind.... It bites and hangs on."--The New York Times

"Beautifully written... perfectly evokes life and battle in a parachute infantry company."--Washington Post Book World

Book Description:

The remarkable memoir that inspired Band of Brothers ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0440240905
• ISBN 13: 9780440240907
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464