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Title: Battling Buzzards by Gerald Astor ISBN: 0-440-23693-2 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Quality history of a special unit.
Comment: This is an excellent book about one of WWII's special units-an Airborne Regimental Combat Team. The accounts range from gruesome to hillarious, and cover both the combat and the non-combat parts of this unit's history. Military veterans will appreciate the real life view of life in the service, and others will get a look into this unique world. I laughed a number of times at crazy things these guys did. They reminded me of our antics as paratroopers some 40 years later. If you read "Band of Brothers", you will appreciate the differences. Difference places, different units (it includes the engineers, artillery and medical corps for example, not just infantry), and a different style of history. My dad was a 517th vet. He told very few stories about his experience. This book did a great job of telling the rest of the story, a very unique story in the annals of army history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding - Deserves to be republished & re-released
Comment: This is a special book about special men. My father was one of them and mentioned in the book. I have met many of the men of the 517th and they are all first class. This unit was overlooked for far too many years. Mr. Astor has truly done this unit the belated justice it richly deserved. This is a great book and deserves another printing.
Rating: 5
Summary: It was like Dad's old war stories
Comment: I grew up listening to the oral history of my Dad's (Don Eugene) experiences in the 517th. From parachuting off course into the vinyards of southern France, to the wild rides on scooters through Rome, Gerald Astor captured, in exqusite detail, every account of the war my father passed on to me. As I reflect on his humble accounts, I now know the significance of the 517th in WWII. Anyone who had a father, son, friend, relative, or interest in WWII must read this book. Anyone who has more information on the 517th and/or knows where to find more copies of the book, pleaseemail me. Thanks!
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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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Title: Seven Roads to Hell by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236274 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: Beyond the Rhine: A Screaming Eagle in Germany by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236363 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Road to Arnhem: A Screaming Eagle in Holland by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236339 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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