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Summary: Withstanding the storm
Review: Mr. Burgett was a 19 year old paratrooper in the 101st airborne who had the luck (good or bad) to witness some of the fiercest fighting that took place during the second world war. This book provides you with the feel from the trenches of those terrible dark days when it looked like the Wehrmacht and Hitler's Germany were striking forward again. The terrible cold, fear, and the brutality of the combat spring to life in this well written account. This text is an easy and quick read, I finished it on one 3 hour plane flight.
Mr. Burgett participated in multiple attacks and defenses and his writing of them is extremely detailed as I suppose those memories linger quite clearly. This is not a book of strategy or an overview of the Battle of Bastogne, but simply how one man experienced the combat and the losses. No quarter was given or asked for. Prisoners were given no solace as there was no food, medicine or even men to guard them. This was combat in its rawest form. A good reminder to all of what war really is in its basic form - young men killing other young men. Mr. Burgett experienced this at arms length and is kind enough to share his experiences. Read this and be thankful for the freedom from fascism that we share!
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Summary: "What was it like?"
Review: 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.
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Summary: "What was it like?"
Review: 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.
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Summary: Extremely Well Written
Review: One of the best WWII personal narratives written. Burgett provides fascinating details, while incorporating high level, after-the-fact, commentary. I'll defintely read his other two books!
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Summary: The very best book
Review: Read the book first as a 14 year old schoolboy. Now, 18 years later I've have read it 6 more times ! It is the very best book that I've ever read !Thank you mr. Burgett !
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Summary: Best of the Bulge
Review: Simply one of the best books written about the Battle of the Bulge. Burgett has crafted a book that takes you into the foxholes with his buddies of the 101st and shows you the battle from their perspective. If you don't find yourself shivering just a little bit when he describes how cold it was, then there must be something wrong with you!
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Summary: Best of the Bulge
Review: Simply one of the best books written about the Battle of the Bulge. Burgett has crafted a book that takes you into the foxholes with his buddies of the 101st and shows you the battle from their perspective. If you don't find yourself shivering just a little bit when he describes how cold it was, then there must be something wrong with you!
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Summary: The best microscopic detail of the battle for Bastogne!
Review: The experiences recorded by the author in his book are gripping and seem almost beyond human understanding. I am priviledged to be an honorary member of a D-day club which includes several former paratroopers who were at Bastogne. Their accounts of the battle confirm the accuracy of the author's descriptions. Readers of this book will find it heartbreaking to read of the magnitude of this carnage. It should be read by all so that the horror and insanity of war is grasped and avoided at any cost in the future. Well done Trooper Burgett!
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Summary: This book did an excellent job of telling an important story
Review: Thirty years ago, when I was in junior high school, I read Mr. Burgett's first book on his actions as a paratrooper during the Normandy Invasion. Over the years, I must have re-read this book probably twenty times. It was that good. Most books tell us what this unit did and what the other unit did, but Mr. Burgett tells us what he and his fellow squad members did. I can't believe there is any better history than that to tell. In his latest book, Mr. Burgett tells us about the second most important battle that the United States Army fought in Europe in 1944. I have ready many books on the Battle of the Bulge and I feel that this was one of the more important ones that I could have read.
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Summary: REAL
Review: This book along with Ambrose's D-Day started my interest in WWII and has been the foundation for over a years worth of studying
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