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Beschreibung
A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division.
On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on the Nazi atrocities performed at the concentration camps for the trials at Nuremburg.
Beginning with his plunge into the blood-tinged surf at Omaha Beach, his candid, often graphic memoir is presented here as told to his granddaughter.
A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division.
On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on the Nazi atrocities performed at the concentration camps for the trials at Nuremburg.
Beginning with his plunge into the blood-tinged surf at Omaha Beach, his candid, often graphic memoir is presented here as told to his granddaughter.
Über den Autor
The late Sgt. Daniel Altman grew up in the Bronx, New York. He enlisted in the Army at 21 and served in the ETO. When he came state-side he integrated back into civilian life and repressed his memories of the war. He lived in Verona, New Jersey.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel

Preface by Fawn Zwickel

1-Hell

2-Lucky Foot

3-Starving and Battered

4-Surviving Normandy

5-Face to Face with the Siegfried Line

6-Woodland Splinters

7-Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit

8-My Private Battle of the Bulge

9-War's Over-Off to the Next Assignment

10-Camp Ashcan

11-Transporting Guilty Cargo

12-Haunted Forever

13-Camp #219, Dachau

14-Buchenwald

15-Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz

16-Standing Guard at Nuremberg

17-Homesick

18-The Final Ride Home

19-Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin

20-Killing Time to Stay Alive

21-Fixing the Propeller

22-An Empty Welcome Home

23-A Changed Man at the VA

24-Compartmentalizing

A Last Word

Author's Military Service

References

Index
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781476679235
ISBN-10: 1476679231
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Altman, Daniel
Zwickel, Fawn
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel Altman (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 116762788