George E. Koskimaki, un ancien parachutiste qui a atterri en Normandie en 1944, est devenu un historien distingué de la 101e division aéroportée. Son œuvre exhaustive repose sur des entretiens avec des centaines de camarades vétérans, recueillant leurs récits de première main. Les contributions de Koskimaki offrent des perspectives inestimables et intimes sur les expériences des soldats lors d'événements historiques cruciaux.
A TRULY AMAZING COMPENDIUM. -Gerald J. Higgins, major general, U.S. Army (ret.), from the book's foreword Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. číst celé
September 17, 1944; thousands of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, known as the Screaming Eagles, descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and secure the road leading north to Arnhem and the Rhine. Their success would allow the Allied army to advance swiftly into Germany.
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words.