Best The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
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The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.
From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared the entire time it took to liberate Europe no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157thEager for Duty Infantry Regiment of the 45th Thunderbird Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirdsfoughtlongest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor.
Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US,historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroicjourneysin military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against thediehardSS on the Fatherlands borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.
In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparksand his mencrossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experiencesome ofthe most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitlers first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp,Sparksconfronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery?
Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaws previous bestselling books about American infantrymen in WWII,The Liberatoris a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of historys greatest warriors and his unheralded role in Americas finest achievement the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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