Currahee!: A Paratrooper's Account of the Normandy Invasion - Hardcover

Burgett, Donald R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891416811 ISBN 13: 9780891416814

Publisher: Presidio Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this second volume of an extraordinarily vivid and dramatic trilogy, Donald R. Burgett, a former paratrooper of the 101st Division, recalls his experiences of Normandy landings and the ensuing battle through northern France.'

About this title

About the Author:

DONALD R. BURGETT lives in Howell, Michigan. He is the author of SEVEN ROADS TO HELL and the soon to be published THE ROAD TO ARNHEM.

From the Inside Flap:

David Guion
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In June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against the Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to go behind German lines. These were the Screaming Eagles of the newly formed 101st Airbourne Division. Their job was to strike terror into the Nazi
defenders, delay reinforcements, and kill any enemy solders they met. In the next seven days, the men of the 101st fought some of the most ferocious close-quarter combat in all of World War II.

Now, Donald R. Burgett looks back at the nonstop, nightmarish fighting across body-strewn fields, over enemy-held hedgegrows, through blown out towns and devastated forests. This harrowing you-are-there chronicle captures the baptism by fire of a young Private Burgett, his comrades and a new air-mobile fighting force that would become a legend of war.

About this edition

• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0891416811
• ISBN 13: 9780891416814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256