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Title: The Road to Arnhem : A Screaming Eagle in Holland by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0-440-23633-9 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (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: 5
Summary: Burgett continues to impress...
Comment: This book gives a very forthright account of one of the biggest debacles in WWII. Burgett moves on from Normandy down the road to Arnhem and continues to provide awing details of a paratrooper's life in WWII. What I like most about this book, as well as other Burgett books, he gives credit to all soldiers. At the end, this book highlights the courage of the British soldiers who were literally slaughtered by the Germans, but refused to surrender until ordered to do so (similar to the Screaming Eagles in Bastone).
Rating: 4
Summary: You have to fill in the blank!
Comment: First of all...since this book is so cheap and fills in the gap between two of the best WWII books out there (currahee and 7 roads) it is on my must read list...and with its length it is an easy 2 day read. But I must admit I was just a little bit disappointed...maybe because of Burgett's other two books I became an action junky, but this book seemed to never get going. He does give wonderful insight into the market garden operation and his writing, as usual, is easy flowing and descriptive. But his unit doesn't seem to run into alot of trouble, and if they did it wasn't portrayed in the fashion of his normandy and bastogne experience. Please don't think I am criticizing one of our nations heroes and one of my personal favorites, but I imagined the holland fight to be a bit hairier and those looking for a WWII memoir are probably looking for the same thing.
a great read however and for the price and length a must buy...
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Title: Seven Roads to Hell : A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236274 Publisher: Dell 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 ISBN: 0440236304 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 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 Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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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): $13.95 |
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Title: If You Survive by George Wilson ISBN: 0804100039 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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