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Title: Men of Company K: The Autobiography of a World War II Rifle Company by Harold P. Leinbaugh, Harlold P. Leinbaugh, John D. Campbell ISBN: 5-551-29627-X Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pub. Date: November, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning history brought to life
Comment: It is almost tragic that this excellent, personal, detailed and brutally honest, heroic and even quietly poetic memoir has fallen out of print. This, perhaps one of the finest histories ever written about WWII, tells the story of the front line soldier from the first person.
Long before Saving Private Ryan inspired Tom Brokaw and the rest to capitalize on the rightfully named "Greatest Generation", Cambell and Leinbaugh's book captured the harrowing narrative of combat that so many men of that era are sadly taking to the grave with them. This book personlizes the story in a voice that appears to have been culled from a combat veteran reunion. The Men of Company K willingly recountsthe horror of battle as a permanent record. A warning really as to what freedom ultimately costs. May we be damned should we ever forget.
As a historical document, it boils in as much action and tension as any Clancy novel.
Ambrose frequently has used The Men of Company K as a carefully cited reference in his longer works. This alone may be a testament to its greatest. Please search this fine work out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Family History
Comment: I can not begin to express to you how much this book means to me. My grandfather was Clarence Jarvis. He was one of the men in Company K. We really never knew anything about his death. He died when my father was only an infant. To the writers of this book I say Thank You !! The personnal touches brought my grandfather into our lives some 50 years later. I only wish more history books were written this way.
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb account of European ground warfare
Comment: This is a moving account of the combat experience of one rifle company as told by the commanders. What makes this book so special is all the personal recollections that are compiled. The men of company K get their first battle after D Day in Holland. They continue east through the battle of the bulge, the crossing of the Rhine, and occupation duty in the conquered Germany. The little personal touches are on every page. One man defines REMFS as "any sob behind my foxhole." A future mathematics professor uses geometry and a map to plot a German rocket launching site. The description of their Christmas Eve 1944 battle in the bulge, and how a Belgium village renamed their main street to honor this battle brings goosebumps to my arms as I recall it. One man blinded in this battle by tank gun fire was happy to know that his dreadful wound was his Christmas gift of survival and evacuation to the rear. Others recall the blinded soldier crawling over them to the rear without a guide and wishing them all "Merry Christmas" as he groped his way to the medics miles behind the battle. It was a battle in which company K fixed and held a numerically superior armored force with only rifles and grenades. In one captured German city with still working phones, a German speaking GI got a call through to German Army HQ in Berlin to tell them to "expect company K in about two weeks." This book is full of personal accounts of horror and humor, terror and triumph. This book evokes visualization by the reader like no other account of infantry combat in Europe. I only wish that the publisher would put it back in print! It should be required reading for high school U.S. History classes. Not because it is a historical text, but rather for the personal context it gives to such a critical point in history.
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Title: G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945 by Bruce E. Egger, Lee Macmillan Otts, Paul Roley ISBN: 0817309780 Publisher: University of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Roll Me over: An Infantryman's World War II by Raymond Gantter ISBN: 0804116059 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Seven Roads to Hell by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236274 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy by Donald R. Burgett, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0440236304 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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