War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler - Softcover

North, Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596980249 ISBN 13: 9781596980242

Publisher: Regnery History, 2006

Synopsis

It was the Greatest Generation’s greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines—under the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley—rescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

In War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler, Marine combat veteran Lt. Col. Oliver North gives you a chance to revisit the front lines. Using dramatic first-person testimony, North reveals:

• The reality of combat: how it felt to live through the Battle of Britain as a citizen and a pilot, on the ground and in the air
  
• The stories of Yanks in the RAF: how Americans fought Hitler before Pearl Harbor
  
• America’s first taste of battle in North Africa against the Germans—and the French
  
• A date with destiny: men and women who joined up together to fight for liberty
  
• The saga of war on the home front: how women faced enormous challenges in America, Russia, and Britain and helped win the war

Featuring extended interviews with veterans that cover the war in Europe from beginning to end, War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler is a testament to the courage and sacrifice of the World War II generation—a remembrance of the bravery and honor of these heroes.

It belongs in the hands of every veteran, every student, and every American.

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From the Inside Flap

A Legacy of Valor "We are joined together, shedding our blood side by side, until the triumph of the great causes which we serve shall be made manifest." -Sir Winston Churchill, 1943

It was the Greatest Generation’s greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, under the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley, rescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

In War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler, Marine combat veteran Lt. Colonel Oliver North gives you a chance to revisit the front lines with infantrymen slugging their way up the boot of Italy, bomber pilots threading the shell bursts over Germany, and sailors of the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine dueling German U-Boats in the icy Atlantic. The whole panoramic spectacle of the war in Europe is here, from the perspectives of American, British, Russian, French, and even German individuals who saw history unfold before their eyes.

Using dramatic first-person testimony, North reveals:

· The reality of combat: how it felt to live through the Battle of Britain as a citizen and a pilot, on the ground and in the air

· The stories of Yanks in the RAF: how Americans fought Hitler before Pearl Harbor

· America’s first taste of battle in North Africa against the Germans—and the French

· How farm boys and field workers climbed the cliffs of Normandy and brought down the army of the Blitzkrieg

· A date with destiny: men and women who joined up together to fight for liberty

· The saga of war on the home front: how women faced enormous challenges in America, Russia, and Britain and helped win the war

· Amazing stories of resolve on the battlefield: from Anzio to the Bulge to Berlin.

Featuring extended interviews with veterans that cover the war in Europe from beginning to end, War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler is a testament to the courage and sacrifice of the World War II generation—a remembrance of the bravery and honor of these heroes. It belongs in the hands of every veteran, every student, and every American.

About the Author

Oliver L. North is a combat-decorated Marine, New York Times bestselling author, and host of War Stories on the FOX News Channel.

Co-author Joe Musser is a bestselling author of over fifty books and more than a dozen motion picture and television screenplays. He has collaborated with Oliver North on five books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596980249
• ISBN 13: 9781596980242
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342