EASY COMPANY SOLDIER: THE LEGENDARY BATTLES OF A SERGEANT FROM WORLD WAR II'S "BAND OF BROTHERS"

Don Malarkey, Bob Welch

ISBN 10: 0312378491 / ISBN 13: 9780312378493

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 2008

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Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 288 pages. Seller Inventory # 312365

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Title: EASY COMPANY SOLDIER: THE LEGENDARY BATTLES ...

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne.

Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground for the largest amphibious military attack in history: Operation Overlord. In the darkness of D-day morning, Malarkey parachuted into France and within days was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroism in battle. He fought for twenty-three days in Normandy, nearly eighty in Holland, thirty-nine in Bastogne, and nearly thirty more in and near Haugenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany.

This is his dramatic tale of those bloody days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how an adventurous kid from Oregon became a leader of men.

 

About the Author:

DON MALARKEY was born in 1921 and grew up in Astoria, Oregon. After trying to enlist in several branches of the service, he was drafted in 1942 and spent more consecutive days in combat than any other member of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division---the most recognized fighting unit in American history. Today he lives in Oregon.

BOB WELCH is a nationally recognized author and journalist whose book American Nightingale, about the first nurse to die in World War II after the landings at Normandy, was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America and was an Oregon Book Award finalist. He lives in Oregon.