The Eagles Of Bastogne

Author : Martin King
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636244143

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The Eagles of Bastogne by Martin King Pdf

A complete account of the battle that inspired Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers. There are few names in the annals of military history that evoke such emotion, and in some cases controversy, as the small Belgian town of Bastogne. The 101st Airborne are the best known defenders of Bastogne, but they only constituted one third of the eventual force that saved the city from total annihilation. This book digs deeper into the defense of Bastogne, revealing more details about those indomitable “Screaming Eagles” and the other units that stood with them during that punishingly bitter cold winter of 1944/45. It also presents the perspective of the German soldiers trying desperately to re-take Bastogne that desperate winter. It is a story of sacrifice, dedication to duty, and honor in the face of terrible adversity, but more importantly it’s a human story, one that encapsulates the finest attributes of humankind in the absolute direst of circumstances.

Author : Robert Bowen
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935149903

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Fighting with the Screaming Eagles by Robert Bowen Pdf

A member of the 101st Airborne’s Glider Infantry recalls WWII, from the horror of D-Day to the despair of Nazi captivity, in this compelling memoir. As World War II broke out, Robert Bowen was drafted into Company C, 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Soon afterwards, he found himself storming Utah Beach amid the chaos of D-Day, through unfamiliar terrain littered with minefields and hidden snipers. Bowen was wounded during the Normandy campaign but went on to fight in Holland and the Ardennes, where he was captured. That’s when his “trip through hell” truly began. In each of Bowen’s campaigns, the 101st “Screaming Eagles” spearheaded the Allied effort against the Nazi occupation of Europe. At Bastogne, they stood nearly alone against the onslaught of enemy panzers and grenadiers. His insights into life behind enemy lines after his capture provide as much fascination as his exploits on the battlefield. Written shortly after the war, Bowen’s narrative is immediate and compelling. An introduction by the world’s foremost historian of the 101st Airborne, George Koskimaki, further enhances this classic work.

Author : Donald R. Burgett
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0783889941

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Seven Roads to Hell by Donald R. Burgett Pdf

The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division had just finished the battle for "the bridge too far", and, as Christmas 1944 approached, they were settling in for some hard-earned R&R. Then Hitler ordered a massive Nazi counterattack through the Ardennes Forest. The Screaming Eagles were rushed to Bastogne, a small Belgian crossroads where seven roads met and where the lightly armed and under-supplied division became the "cork in the bottle" of the Nazi onslaught. Burgett's stirring memoir (he was 19) recounts how epic courage bought the time needed for Patton's Third Army to redeploy.

Author : Mark Bando
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760339800

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101st Airborne by Mark Bando Pdf

Original publication and copyright date: 2001.

Author : George Koskimaki
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480406650

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The Battered Bastards of Bastogne by George Koskimaki Pdf

“Fleshes out in vivid detail the entire story of the Screaming Eagles’ valiant struggle . . . This is must reading for any student of World War II history” (Kepler’s Military History). The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history, and much of it is told in their own words. The material contributed by these men of the 101st Airborne Division, the Armor, Tank Destroyer, Army Air Force , and others is tailored meticulously by the author and placed on the historical framework known to most students of the Battle of the Bulge. Pieces of a nearly 60-year-old jigsaw puzzle come together in this book, when memoirs from one soldier fit with those of another unit or group pursuing the battle from another nearby piece of terrain.

Author : Colonel Robert E. Jones
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596527539

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History of the 101st Airborne Division by Colonel Robert E. Jones Pdf

The History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation Desert Storm in April 1991. The Division’s progression through the sky took decades of hard work and tens of thousands of dedicated soldiers. In World War II, the 101st became the first American troops to set foot in occupied France, when, on 6 June 1944, its paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines, clearing the way for the 4th Infantry Division landing on Utah Beach. The Division would become famous for its work in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and for its successful defense of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. In Vietnam, the “Screaming Eagles” engaged in battle from 1965 to 1972, when they began their evolution to Air Mobile by deploying by helicopter. In the Gulf War, the Division fired the first shots of Operation Desert Storm by destroying Iraqi radar sites, and during ground war of the operation, they made the longest and largest air assault in history. In every engagement and during the training periods in between, the 101st Airborne Division has honored the words of its first commander, General William C. Lee, that it has a “rendezvous with destiny.” This book is a fitting record of that history, and of the men who are proud to be called “Screaming Eagles.”

Author : Michael Collins,Martin King
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001821

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The Tigers of Bastogne by Michael Collins,Martin King Pdf

This chronicle of an armored division’s bravery during the Battle of the Bulge sheds new light on the legendary Siege of Bastogne in WWII. Before the 101st Airborne Division’s famous Siege of Bastogne, there was already a US unit holding the town when they arrived. This unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in its defense through the German onslaught. The Tigers of Bastogne offers a detailed chronicle of the young armored division that withstood the full brunt of Manteuffel’s Fifth Panzer Army in the Ardennes. The 10th Armored had only arrived in Europe that September as part of Patton’s Third Army. They soon faced the onslaught of Nazi panzers bursting across no-man’s-land on December 16. But they earned their nickname, “The Tiger Division,” as they went on the defensive at Bastogne, surrounded by an entire German army. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe of the 101st Airborne said, “It seems regrettable to me that Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division didn’t get the credit it deserved at the Battle of Bastogne. All the newspaper and radio talk was about the paratroopers. Actually the 10th Armored Division was in there a day before we were and had some very hard fighting before we ever got into it.” Fortunately, in this book, the historical record is finally corrected.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846036668

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Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2) by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

The Ardennes offensive in December 1944, known to history as the 'Battle of the Bulge', was the decisive campaign of the war in North-West Europe. When the attack in the north by 6th Panzer Army failed, Hitler switched the focus of the offensive to General Manteuffel's 5th Panzer Army farther south. Overwhelming the green US 106th Division, German Panzers flooded towards the River Meuse. Barring their way was the crossroads town of Bastogne, reinforced at the last minute by the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne, the 'Screaming Eagles'. The stage was set for one of the epic struggles of the war – the battle for Bastogne.

Author : Fred MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015013430999

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The Men of Bastogne by Fred MacKenzie Pdf

Account of the Battle of the Bulge.

Author : Robert E. Jones (Col.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1285575101

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The History of the 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles by Robert E. Jones (Col.) Pdf

Author : Donald Burgett
Publisher : Drb Enterprise, Incorporated
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990350630

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Seven Roads to Hell by Donald Burgett Pdf

The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division had just finished the battle for the bridge too far, Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden. As Christmas 1944 approached, the division was settling in for some hard earned rest and recuperation. Despite its failure to hold the Rhine River bridgehead at Arnhem a few weeks earlier, Eisenhower's Allied juggernaut appeared unstoppable. Then, Hitler ordered a massive Nazi counterattack through the supposedly impenetrable Ardennes Forest. The overwhelming armor-heavy Wehrmacht forces cut through the thinly-manned Allied lines, racing for Antwerp and the coast. German victory in what is now known at the Battle of the Bulge would split the Allied armies, cripple their attack against the Reich, and lengthen the war, perhaps by years. The author and the rest of the Screaming Eagles were rushed to Bastogne, a small Belgian crossroads town where seven roads met. The lightly-armed paratrooper became 'the cork in the bottle' of the Nazi onslaught. Bastogne became the key to German victory. They immediately found themselves in close combat. Without enough ammunition or food, in freezing weather with deep snow, they even lacked winter clothing. Yet, for eleven days they held out against the best the Nazis could throw at them, buying the time needed for Patton's Third Army to redeploy form the south. Burgett's memoir (he was not yet twenty years old at the time of the battle) is an exciting and enduring testament to the Screaming Eagles and their epic defense of Bastogne. Donald R. Burgett is the author of three additional books; Currahee! a critically acclaimed memoir of the Normandy invasion, Road to Arnhem and Beyond the Rhine.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472800084

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Battle of the Bulge 1944 (1) by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. The Ardennes fighting was Hitler's last gamble on the Western Front, crippling the Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. In the first of two volumes on the Ardennes campaign Steven Zaloga details the fighting in the northern sector around St Vith and the Elsenborn Ridge. The Sixth Panzer Army, containing the bulk of German Panzer strength, was expected to achieve the breakthrough here. It was the failure around St Vith that forced the Germans to look south towards Bastogne.

Author : Timothy W. Long,David Moody,Craig DiLouie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-02
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 1523209224

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The Front by Timothy W. Long,David Moody,Craig DiLouie Pdf

"Band of Brothers meets Dead Snow" Private Franklin Grillo is a fresh faced infantryman in the 101st Airborne. He's been dispatched to the Ardennes Forest outside of Bastogne to assist Baker company against a surprise attack by the Germans. Outgunned, low on ammo, food, and supplies, the men along the new front are up against an army ten times their size. Barely able to hold out the 101st now face a new threat. German soldiers who take massive amounts of damage but keep on attacking. This is an alternative history that will sink it's teeth into you. Coming Soon from Timothy W. Long, David Moody, and Craig DiLouie THE FRONT 2: RED DEVILS THE FRONT 3: BERLIN OR BUST

Author : Jos Groen
Publisher : Jos Groen
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1792311346

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Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles by Jos Groen Pdf

Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles describes the personal stories of three U.S. paratroopers of the renowned 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles. The book depicts their exploits and acts of valor during the harsh battles across the European continent in an in-depth and fascinating way. Proceeds benefiting US veterans and their families.

Author : Duncan Stirling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0750528818

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The Screaming Eagles by Duncan Stirling Pdf

The survivors of the battered remnants of the 101st Airborne Division, also known as the Screaming Eagles, are sent out on a desperate mission to save what is left of their shattered division.