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Summary: Verisimilitude Problem
Review: This is a response to the disturbing review by S.Winn who claims to be a "war scholar". How dare you comment on the validity of a veterans war memories. What gives you the right, were you there freezing, scared to death, watching your friends die...have you shed any blood to protect the world's freedoms? Have you seen a veteran cry from reliving the pain of war?
Oh forgot your an expert, none of that happended.
I find it interesting that not one veteran has disputed William Foley's claim of having to shoot prisoners. To say the author "feels triumph" in doing this is absurd, obviously you dont know the man, and are blind, or you would easily see the pain in his art work, thats pain not triumph.
Before you go making stupid claims on a authors work why don't you try something novel and contact the the author... William is more than accessable. Mr Winn you are revolting amchair critic.. These veterans have suffered for 50 years with the painful memories of war, and instead of taking the time to shed a tear and thank them, you choose to belittle them.
Shame on you.
Thank you William Foley and your fellow veterans for your sacrifices.
Mike
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Summary: WW 2 Classic
Review: This is an American Classic and a must read for anyone who wants live in the shoes of an American rifleman in an infantry platoon. The author is also an excellent artist and his wartime pictures are so compelling that you are living with him.I am the Historian of the 35th Infantry Div. and served in Normandy till the end of the war and frankly I didn't expect that the book would be so compelling. After all Foley was a replacement who didn't arrive in the battle area until mid January of 1945 when the battle of the Bulge was starting to wind down. I was wrong. Foley landed in the middle of some of the most vicious small units battles of the war and he tells his story in great detail as his memory draws a picture that brings the reader into the foxhole with him. It is not a pretty picture and he does not hide his faults and the savage instincts that come into play when you are fighting for your life.His pictures are dramatic in impact.
Ater reading this book even a layman can understand why buddies who fought together have such close personal relationsships more like brothers than friends.
Medals for valor go to men like this but not often enough, you have to survive and someone has also survived has to submit the story etc. It just does not get done. Your reward for surviving one viscious fight is to go to the next one until you are a KIA, Mia or the war ends.
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Summary: A Fantastic WWII Book
Review: This is aterrific account of WWII as told by a lowly GI. He re-creates all of the terror, heartaches, and trauma of being involved in front line fighting. Like other great books (like The Men of Company K) Mr. Foley's accounts are in great details and very personal. Add to it his terrific sketches and you really are taken right there. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants a first hand account of life for a GI during WWII.
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Summary: I felt like Dan was my buddy too!
Review: written from the perspective of a young man trying to come of age in an all too real war, this work created emotions in me I thought books were incapable of. I have read plenty of war memoirs, none got me so emotionally connected as this one. I actually felt like I had lost my best friend and mentor when Dan is killed. The drawings are a wonderful inclusion as they were made by Foley himself.
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