Parachute Infantry
An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
David Kenyon Webster & Stephen E. Ambrose
Parachute Infantry
An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
David Kenyon Webster & Stephen E. Ambrose
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Description
An English literature major at Harvard, twenty-one-year-old David Kenyon Webster volunteered for duty in the parachute infantry in 1943. He wrote Parachute Infantry a short time after the war. With its descriptions of places and events, and skillful evocation of emotions, Webster's narrative resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel.
David Kenyon Webster worked as a reporter and writer after the war. The Saturday Evening Post published a brief portion of his memoir, but book publishers rejected his manuscript, seeking sensationalized novels of the war rather than authentic memoirs. He died in 1961 in a boating accident while shark fi shing.
Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), was Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and author of many biographies and histories, including D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II and Upton and the Army.
David Kenyon Webster worked as a reporter and writer after the war. The Saturday Evening Post published a brief portion of his memoir, but book publishers rejected his manuscript, seeking sensationalized novels of the war rather than authentic memoirs. He died in 1961 in a boating accident while shark fi shing.
Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), was Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and author of many biographies and histories, including D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II and Upton and the Army.