Two Fronts, One War · Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts of Major Events in the ETO and PTO in WWII
- Authors
- Sasser, Charles W.
- Publisher
- Frontline Books
- Tags
- campaigns , world war 2 , captivity , biographies & memoirs
- ISBN
- 9781848327276
- Date
- 2014-04-19T04:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 13.36 MB
- Lang
- en
War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events. While examining the wider historical perspective to lay the foundation, this book relates the individual stories of the Second World War – of Allied bomber pilots shot down over Germany, of American dogfaces fighting to grip a toehold on Iwo Jima, of men struggling for survival during the Bataan Death March, of tankers in Europe and pilots who flew the first B-29s against Japan's mainland, of incredible feats of heroism and self-sacrifice, even of great wartime romances. The author interviewed more than two dozen U.S. veterans for this book. Most of these stories have never before been published. Together, they provide a true account of what the war was really like for those individuals who actually fought it on the two main fronts of the war – Europe and the South Pacific.
About the AuthorCHARLES W. SASSER is a veteran of both the U.S. Navy (journalist) and U.S. Army (Special Forces, the Green Berets). His many other books include Raider and Patton's Panthers, and he was a contributor to Frontline's The Sniper Anthology