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Ladataan... Roll Me Over: An Infantryman's World War IITekijä: Raymond Gantter
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Interesting memoir of an army soldier in Europe at the end of WW II. ( ) It's really hard to make war stories boring but that being the case stay away from Gantter's Roll Me Over. He's a German speaking Episcopalian with a college degree drafted to serve in the 1st Infantry Div as a replacement just as the Germans were countering the D-Day push to the Rhine River. Written for his family, this journal should probably never have been published. I think this might be a book used as a research supplement, if I wanted to be kind. If I'm honest it is the writing style that disappoints rather than the author himself who seems to want to convey compassion during a time of wartime fighting. A refreshingly candid and honest memoir. The book description is a bit misleading - Gantter arrived in Normandy in November, and so while bodies were still 'washing up from the invasion', the implied combat he saw there was non-existant. Still, that gilding of the lily is hardly the authors fault. He writes very well, and the the immediacy of it all (the book was finished by 1949) comes through loud and clear. It's a good book for details, too, if you read betwen the lines. Descriptions of repple depples, urban fighting, screwups, co-operation with armour and artillery, the chaotic and fragmentary nature of even large battles, and so on and so forth. Highly recommended on a number of levels. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
OVER THERE When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the invasion. Sobered by that sight, Gantter and his fellow infantrymen moved across northern France and Belgium, taking part in the historic and bloody Battle of the Bulge, before slowly penetrating into and across Germany, fighting all the way to the Czechoslovakian border. With depth, clarity, and remarkable compassion, Gantter--an enlisted man and college graduate who spoke German--portrays the extraordinary life of the American soldier as he and his comrades lived it while helping to destroy Hitler's Third Reich. From dueling with unseen snipers in ruined villages to fierce battles in which the lightly armed American infantry skirmished against Hitler's panzers, Gantter skillfully captures one infantryman's progress across a continent where guns, fear, and death lay in wait around every bend in the road. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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