TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Letter to the Reader
A Partial List of Characters
Part 1: The World’s Greatest Democracy
CHAPTER 1:
A QUIET FOREST
CHAPTER 2:
THE BERLIN OLYMPICS
CHAPTER 3:
THE BANNING
CHAPTER 4:
A WALL OF PHOTOGRAPHS
CHAPTER 5:
LEBENSRAUM
CHAPTER 6:
THE BASEBALL PITCHER FROM PIEDMONT
CHAPTER 7:
THE MEETING AT BERCHTESGADEN
CHAPTER 8:
INVASION!
CHAPTER 9:
THE BELGIAN FAMILY
CHAPTER 10:
THE WAR BEGINS
CHAPTER 11:
THE BAKER’S SON AND THE BUTCHER’S APPRENTICE
CHAPTER 12:
THE TRIP TO PARIS
CHAPTER 13:
THE EINSATZGRUPPEN
Part 2: The World at War
CHAPTER 14:
THE SURPRISE ATTACK
CHAPTER 15:
THE NEWS AT WOLFSCHANZE
CHAPTER 16:
THE DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
CHAPTER 17:
THE CHANGING WORLD
CHAPTER 18:
THE CHRISTMAS EVE MESSAGE
CHAPTER 19:
THE LOUISIANA RIOT
CHAPTER 20:
DRAFTED!
CHAPTER 21:
THE RISK
CHAPTER 22:
THE ARMY’S JIM CROW
CHAPTER 23:
THE GI FROM PONTOTOC COUNTY
CHAPTER 24:
CHRISTMAS OF ’42
CHAPTER 25:
THE 155MM HOWITZER
CHAPTER 26:
THE EARLY MONTHS OF ’43
CHAPTER 27:
THE URGENT MESSAGE
CHAPTER 28:
THE TRAINING MANUALS
CHAPTER 29:
THE BABY
CHAPTER 30:
TRAINING
CHAPTER 31:
THE HELPER
CHAPTER 32:
THE VISITOR
CHAPTER 33:
THE NEW POW COMPOUND
CHAPTER 34:
OPERATION CITADEL
CHAPTER 35:
DISILLUSIONED
CHAPTER 36:
THE SONG
CHAPTER 37:
LATE-NIGHT REFLECTIONS
CHAPTER 38:
THE WEAKENING REICH
Part 3: Leaving Camp Gruber
CHAPTER 39:
TRAINING IN THE U.K.
CHAPTER 40:
A STIR IN BRITAIN
CHAPTER 41:
PLANNING AN ASSAULT
CHAPTER 42:
D-DAY
CHAPTER 43:
AN INVASION FROM THE WEST
CHAPTER 44:
ARRIVING AT UTAH BEACH
CHAPTER 45:
“READY! FIRE!”
CHAPTER 46:
THE SYMPHONY SERENADE
CHAPTER 47:
THE PLOT
CHAPTER 48:
THE TERRIFYING NEWS
CHAPTER 49:
THE PUSH OUT OF NORMANDY
CHAPTER 50:
ONWARD INTO BATTLE
CHAPTER 51:
THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER 52:
BREST
CHAPTER 53:
THE BATTLE, FIERCE AND DEADLY
CHAPTER 54:
THE CAPTURE OF BREST
CHAPTER 55:
THE LIBERATION OF PARIS
CHAPTER 56:
THE BIVOUAC
CHAPTER 57:
THE YOUNG, THE OLD, AND THE WOUNDED
CHAPTER 58:
THE REPORTS
CHAPTER 59:
THE LONG MARCH TO BELGIUM
CHAPTER 60:
THE CITY OF LIGHT
CHAPTER 61:
THE PLAN
CHAPTER 62:
BIVOUACKING IN BELGIUM
CHAPTER 63:
OPERATION GREIF
Part 4: The Battle of the Bulge
CHAPTER 64:
LIFE AT THE WEST WALL
CHAPTER 65:
THE ROCKETS
CHAPTER 66:
THE SECRET REVEALED
CHAPTER 67:
A SLEEPLESS NIGHT
CHAPTER 68:
“JUST A PHONOGRAPH”
CHAPTER 69:
“TOO QUIET!”
CHAPTER 70:
DARKNESS IN THE SCHNEE EIFEL
CHAPTER 71:
THE ATTACK
CHAPTER 72:
“SCREAMING MEEMIES!”
CHAPTER 73:
THE DEATH SENTENCE
CHAPTER 74:
A LONG AND DEADLY DAY
CHAPTER 75:
THE BREAKTHROUGH
CHAPTER 76:
CAPTURED!
CHAPTER 77:
THE P-47 THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER 78:
MASSACRE AT THE BAUGNEZ CROSSROADS
CHAPTER 79:
THE FARMHOUSE
CHAPTER 80:
UNEXPECTED HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER 81:
THE ARREST
CHAPTER 82:
THE LONG WAIT
CHAPTER 83:
“THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY”
EPILOGUE 1:
THE REST OF THE STORY
EPILOGUE 2:
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHERS?
PHOTOS
APPENDIX 1:
The Wereth 11 Memorial Speech
APPENDIX 2:
U.S. Memorial Wereth Info about Memorial and Annual Services, Etc.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ENDNOTES
INDEX