Full name: Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

Author: David Kenyon Webster Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385336499 9780440240907 0385336497 0440240905

David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid, varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving, boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war--how men fight it, survive it, and remember it. Similar books: All the Way to Berlin by James Megellas Seven Roads to Hell by Donald R. Burgett The Road to Arnhem by Donald R. Burgett My War by Andy Rooney To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy Soldat by Siegfried Knappe Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey Baa Baa Black Sheep by Gregory Pappy Boyington If You Survive by George Wilson Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters Blood Red Snow by Gunter K. Koschorrek Roll Me Over by Raymond Gantter The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie