George E. Koskimaki, ex paracadutista atterrato in Normandia nel 1944, divenne un distinto storico della 101ª Divisione Aviotrasportata. Il suo vasto lavoro si basa su interviste con centinaia di commilitoni veterani, catturando i loro resoconti di prima mano. I contributi di Koskimaki offrono prospettive inestimabili e intime sulle esperienze dei soldati durante eventi storici cruciali.
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.
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.