Fighting With The Screaming Eagles. With The 101st Airborne From Normandy To Bastogne

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 256 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: Robert Bowen found himself drafted into Company C, 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, as World War II broke out, and had his first experience of war as he stormed ashore on to the Normandy beaches. He was wounded during the Normandy campaign but went on to fight in Holland and the Ardennes before being captured v and mistreated v and finishing the war as a POW. Written shortly after the war, Bowens narrative is immediate, direct and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit. From the horror of D-Day and the despair of captivity, to the taste of C Rations and the fear of soldiers under fire, this memoir tells the full story of one mans total war.

ISBN: 9781853675799