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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
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
APPENDIX 2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ENDNOTES
INDEX
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