George E. Koskimaki, a former paratrooper who landed in Normandy in 1944, became a distinguished historian of the 101st Airborne Division. His extensive work is built upon interviews with hundreds of fellow veterans, capturing their firsthand accounts. Koskimaki's contributions provide invaluable, intimate perspectives on the experiences of soldiers during critical historical events.
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words.
A TRULY AMAZING COMPENDIUM. -Gerald J. Higgins, major general, U.S. Army (ret.), from the book's foreword Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. číst celé
September 17, 1944; thousands of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, known as the Screaming Eagles, descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and secure the road leading north to Arnhem and the Rhine. Their success would allow the Allied army to advance swiftly into Germany.