Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II

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Название: Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II

Издательство: Hyperion

Год: 2001

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 332

Язык: English

Размер: 50.4 MB

In Greatest Generation vein, Drez refracts the personal war experiences of a dozen Americans, but Drez bests Brokaw in that he's been a soldier himself, and the camaraderie of experience infuses his accounts. To be sure, some of these veterans' stories have been previously published (that of USS Indianapolis survivor Harold Eck was incorporated into In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton), but Drez manages to present them with freshness and adequate context. The conflicts include the Doolittle attack, recalled by an airman; the Battle of Midway, witnessed from amidst the Japanese fleet by the sole survivor of a destroyed torpedo squadron; the ghastly battles of Tarawa and Iwo Jima, remembered by a surviving marine from each; and other clashes such as D-Day. In a palpable, unfeigned way, Drez extols their heroism and valor through his focus on the individual combat experience.