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Title: Once upon a wartime by Peter Layton Cottingham, Peter L. Cottingham ISBN: 0-9680969-1-3 Publisher: Peter Layton Cottingham Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Valuable and Personal History
Comment: Having read almost every available book and text published about the First Special Service Force, this book is not only one which I found hard to put down but is also one of the few that I look forward to re-reading.
Mr. Cottingham's recollections are obviously the product of a sharp mind and are doubly valuable when recounted through his clear and concise writing style. The historical events described are obviously important in and of themselves, but the reader becomes much more engaged by the fact that Mr. Cottingham and his fellow Forcemen are sympathetic men rising to face the extraordinarily difficult demands made of them.
This is not a "blood and guts" book thrusting the subject before the reader and attempting to impress by grandious "war stories". Rather, this is a personal recollection presented in a self-deprecating style that allows readers to come to their own conclusions that these men were true heroes at a time in our history when they were needed.
We should be thankful for the wartime contributions of the men of the First Special Service Force and grateful to Mr. Cottingham for this historically valuable, well-written contribution to the topic.
Rating: 4
Summary: Brief well paced narrative
Comment: Cottingham does a very good job of tracing his war experiences from the Aleutians to Italy and France. His description of a naer attack of walruses in the Bering Sea is facsinating as well as his near death in Italy under tank fire. The only weakness is the inability to develop the profile of his friends and fellow soldiers. A good well paced narrative.
Rating: 4
Summary: Devil's Brigade-One man's story
Comment: A very well written book that follows one man through his training and fighting with the First Special Service Force. There are a lot of mini stories that show the bravery and tenacity that these hardened and well trained men possessed. This is not the glossy, "hell is for heroe's" kind of story, but it tells of the boredom and fear of waiting for combat and combat itself. The movie(Devil's Brigade) shows just a portion of what these soldiers went through..."Once Upon A Wartime" gives it a face and a shot of reality. Hats off to Mr. Cottingham and his fellow "Forcemen". Well worth reading
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Title: The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force in World War II by Joseph A. Springer ISBN: 0935553509 Publisher: Pacifica Military History Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Combat Jump : The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943 by Ed Ruggero ISBN: 0060088753 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Supercommandos: First Special Service Force, 1942-1944 An Illustrated History by Robert Todd Ross ISBN: 0764311719 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe by MCKAY JENKINS ISBN: 037550771X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: All the Way to Berlin : A Paratrooper at War in Europe by JAMES MEGELLAS ISBN: 0891417842 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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