Paperback
|
English
€22.50
- From €15,- no shipping costs.
- 30 days to change your mind and return physical products
Description
Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest.
Gutsy, sometimes bemused and sometimes angry … it bites and hangs on
[A] first-rate, skillfully written soldier's story
Beautifully written and perfectly evokes life and battle in a parachute infantry company
He understood the ties that bind men in battle have more to do with brotherhood and its obligations than ties to God or country
Perfectly pitched ... an authentic witness to the combat experience
David Kenyon Webster left Harvard to join the paratroopers, training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. He could have used the influence of his wealthy family to land a comfortable desk job, but he was determined to do his duty and to see the war from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. He parachuted into Normandy the night before the D-Day landings and later into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden, going on to participate in the capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at the end of the war. After the war Webster worked as a journalist. On 9 September 1961, he went missing while shark fishing off the coast of California. His body was not found. His memoir remained unpublished until Stephen Ambrose discovered it, using it as a key source for his book Band of Brothers and later the series. It was Ambrose’s championing of the work that led to its eventual publication.