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Summary: Seven Roads to Hell by donald r. burgett
Review: this book is amazingly interesting. i dont usually read ofter but this book was hard to put down. I loved this work. it is a story of donald and his regiment surrounded in bastogne fighting back to the safety of their lines. their convoy is attacked by a hefty chunk of artillery fire and german ambushes. it also speaks of heavy shelling during all hours of the night by 35 panzer divisions. "seven roads to hell" tells how he loses friends in a battle in the woods. i hope you enjoy it!
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Summary: This book lets you know what its like to be in war.
Review: This book was fantastic. It was a no-nonsense war book, which gives you the facts from a single soldier's perspective and lets you experience war without really being there, so you can know what its like without actually chancing your own death. The details from this book was astounding - so much that you will have no problem visualizing everything in this book. The book does a near complete and perfect job on telling its readers what one man can tell anyone about his experiences at war. Though the book does not really talk about what's gone on with the war up until then, it talks about what its there to talk about : The Battle of Bastogne, with such complete detail. The book is not here to lecture people on the lessons of war or to analyze history, but merely to give you an account , from a single man's perspective, of what one had to endure to hold the town of Bastogne.
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Summary: Eye Witness Account
Review: This is an exciting book, similar to Curahee, Burgett's first book about D-Day. What I liked was the graphic detail, and the feeling of being there. Burgett gives detailed accounts of his involvement in the initial intense fighting just north of Bastogne, and in several offensive attacks during the seige. He describes paratroopers fighting tanks, including how the tanks would attempt to trap and kill them in their fox holes. Burgett includes quite a few maps of his manouevres. Besides being an exciting book, it provides a good overview of the month long battle for Bastogne, including short descriptions of actions in which the author was not directly involved.
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Summary: amazing amount of detail about the battle for Bastogne
Review: This is one of the BEST 1st person accounts of the European theater of WW2 i've ever read. Don provides such detail that the reader is easily drawn in and absorbed in the moment. (How did he remember it all?). Most interesting are his thoughts about personal encounters with the enemy after his various skirmishes. I can almost feel the cold as i read about the GIs' lack of warm clothing, sleep, and food. It's a wonder anyone came out of that alive. Can't recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: Captivating Story
Review: Though I wondered if telling a story in the first person might leave me anxious to see the "big picture", I found the tale told by Mr. Burgett to hold my attention fast. There was more than enough detail in the story to allow me to visualize with apparent clarity what the men of the 101st experienced first hand in December 1944. As a fan of history, exspecially military history, and as a former paratrooper, I would strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about, no, make that experiencing, the combat of WWII from the G.I.'s perspective.
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Summary: One of the best written about this battle.
Review: Very easy to read and understand. For a person to be able to write his encounter with history and have someone 60 years later read, feel and understand him is great.I am greatfull to Mr.Burgett for sharing this part of his life with us. My wife's father was with the 101st Airbore /502th PIR /Company C. He was in all the major battles, wounded at Bastogne. He would not talk about it. We now understand him and know what is was like.
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Summary: War is drama, and this book is full of it
Review: Without a doubt, this is one of the best World War II related books I have ever read. Burgett's personal accounts go unrivaled in detail. In the preface he mentions that he had composed most of it many years ago, after the war ended, and it shows. He describes the men in his squad, who you eventually grow slightly attached to, and you watch them die next to him. You hear of daily struggles with lack of food, sleep, warmth, and very close brushes with death. This man had me laughing out loud and sighing in pain on the same page. There is humor, there is sadness, there is awe that someone could live through something like this - considering it was one of his many campaigns in WW2. You can read many a book on WW2 or even the Bulge, movies too, to try and give you a closer look, but this goes deeper than all of them. You get to feel, in a mild comparison to his experience, what it was actually like to be there - something which interests me and alot of people from my generation. This is one huge story of a campaign and many small, mind blowing stories tucked away inside of that. Prisoners who are left for dead because they can't be helped. Close friends who are left in the spot they fell because there's no way you can get to them. I stopped several times while reading this book and told myself if I had watched it in a movie, I probably wouldn't have believed it.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Read it, appreciate it.
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