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Title: Beyond the Rhine: A Screaming Eagle in Germany by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0-440-23636-3 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "What was it like?"
Comment: Nobody but a combat soldier can answer the question: "What was it like?" For those of us who have never experienced battle we can only try to imagine it. Mr. Burgett urges us to hunker down into his foxhole as the carnage of noman's land drops onto our laps like a screaming mortar shell. His unbelievable experiences make for a series of WWII memoirs unsurpassed in their vivid telling. I have read all four of his books-in chronological order-and I cannot imagine a more genuine and descriptive account of a trooper's brutal experiences in the European theater of WWII. I wish I could meet the man to shake his hand. His dedication and sense of honor and sacrifice make me proud to be an American, and very grateful indeed for having known of such combat men as Donald R. Burgett.
Rating: 3
Summary: Over sexed, over paid and over rated.
Comment: I had just finished Band of Brothers and bought this book as a companion piece to Ambrose's book (to get a different perspective on the same theater of war by another writer). However, I was disappointed with this book. One of the critics here said the book read like a travelog with not much action. I have to agree. The book was getting a bit boring until the description of the liberation of the concentration camps at Landsberg and then the occupation of Berchtesgaden. These last two chapters made up for the rest of the book.
I did come across two passages in this book that mirrored two episodes in Band of Brothers. One was the description of the wounded German soldier who could be heard gurgling because of wounds in his lungs; and the GI's efforts to kill him with grenades. The passage was almost word for word what Ambrose had described. Huummm.....
Anyway, I agree with another critic that I should have read the books in order that Burgett wrote them. I won't let this keep me from reading the other books he wrote. This book was OK but was a bit short on substance and therefore, somewhat overrated.
Rating: 3
Summary: The final book of the series.
Comment: I have read Burgett's first three books and they are great reads.
In comparison with those first three books, this is an average read. Why? Very little action. It almost seems like a travel guide with Burgett saying in essence--I went here and then I went there. Burgett is a good author, but I think he is trying to capitalize on his combat experience. His first three books detail the combat experience, but this fourth book could have been cut down to fifty pages, and attached onto his last book. Because of the publisher, they make Burgett get another book out of very minimal material. I don't think there is a fifth book here Don, so don't try.
That said, Burgett is a great author, so please read his first three books about the Normandy Invasion, Battle of the Bulge, and the Holland Campaign. For the WWII historian, these show the true experiences of an American soldier.
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Title: Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy by Donald R. Burgett, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0440236304 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0385336497 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: If You Survive by George Wilson ISBN: 0804100039 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Roll Me over: An Infantryman's World War II by Raymond Gantter ISBN: 0804116059 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It by Gerald Astor ISBN: 0440215749 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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