Ian Gardner: Sent by the Iron Sky | Buch

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Cover: 9781472837387 | Sent by the Iron Sky | Ian Gardner | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

Following on from the success of Ian Gardner's critically acclaimed trilogy on the exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in World War II, Sent by the Iron Sky tells their exhilarating story for a new readership. From the moment they entered the war in June, 1944, the men of 3rd Battalion were faced with brutal fighting against horrendous odds. Later in the year, nearly five months in combat with no relief lead to heavy losses that reduced them to the size of a company. Their heroic defence of Bastogne saw their division awarded a Unit Citation, a first in the history of the US armed forces, and they subsequently fought on across Europe, finishing the war occupying Hitler's mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden.
Drawing on years of research and interviews with veterans of some of the toughest battles of World War II, together with maps and over 200 vintage images, Ian Gardner brings to life some of the most bitter fighting of the war in Europe, laying bare the horrors of war, the deprivations of day-to-day living and the chaos of the front line. Additional material includes a chapter on the fate of the men captured in Normandy and a foreword by Lee Wolverton, the grandson of the commander of 3rd Battalion, Col Robert Wolverton.

Über den Autor

Ian Gardner served for five years in Support Company, 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. Always enthusiastic about military history, several years after leaving 10 Para Ian became interested in World War II US Paratroopers. After a visit to Normandy in 2000 he decided to focus on the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which led to the critically acclaimed trilogy Tonight We Die As Men, Deliver Us From Darkness and No Victory in Valhalla. He is also the author of Airborne: The Combat Biography of Ed Shames of Easy Company. He is married with two grown-up children and lives near Aldershot in Hampshire.

Zusammenfassung

2019 is the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Market Garden and the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Chapter One: "Guiding Star" Selection, training & Colonel Sink & Bob Wolverton /Chapter Two: "Get Loaded" Deployment to UK & Ramsbury / Chapter Three: "Reclaim The Name" D-Day & Normandy/ Chapter Four: "Searching Souls" POWs 1944 - 1945 / Chapter Five: "Time is Short" Return to UK & false alarms / Chapter Six: "Fire Like a River" Operation Market Garden / Chapter Seven: "Words Like Stone" Bastogne / Chapter Eight: "Dying For A Dream" Hell Night & the final attack on Foy / Chapter Nine: "Distant Flags" Alsace Lorraine & the Colmar Pocket / Chapter Ten: "Earth Stained Tears" Western Germany & The Ruhr / Chapter Eleven: "A Principle of Faith" Southern Bavaria / Chapter Twelve: "Living in the Machine" Berchtesgaden & Austria / Chapter Thirteen: "Tho' Our Pictures Fade" / Coming home

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	260
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781472837387
ISBN-10:	147283738X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Gardner, Ian
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	197 x 251 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Ian Gardner
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.11.2019
Gewicht:	1,13 kg

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