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David Webster

Parachute Infantry

An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

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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 la… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ambrose, Stephen E.
  • ISBN: 978-0-385-33649-9
  • EAN: 9780385336499
  • Produktnummer: 9874369
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.

Über den Autor


David Kenyon Webster worked as a reporter and writer after the war. The Saturday Evening Post published a 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 fishing.

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