Battling Buzzards: The Odyssey of the 517th Regimental Parachute Combat Team - Hardcover

Astor, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556113633 ISBN 13: 9781556113635

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1993

Synopsis

Survivors of the unit recall the four major battles they fought in Italy, France, the Ardennes, and Germany.

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From the Inside Flap:

w and the Brave

Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers willing to hurl themselves from airplanes and hit the ground fighting, the 517th PRCT became one of the most highly trained airborne units in the world.

Blooded in northern Italy in 1944, the Battling Buzzards dropped at night in southern France for the second D-day to spearhead a savage advance through the Champagne region and then into the Alps.

Gerald Astor, acclaimed author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide, draws on the words of the men of the 517th to create this gripping, action-packed account of a unit that existed for only two years but fought heroically to defeat the vaunted German forces.

From its campaign in Italy to its assault in the French Alps, the Battling Buzzards helped push the Germans out of southern Europe one fierce, close-

From the Back Cover:

“Absorbing, informative ... tellingly detailed.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Also by Gerald Astor:

The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It

A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It

Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II

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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1556113633
• ISBN 13: 9781556113635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 16