The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
Jeff Shaara
Language: English
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0345461398
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler’s European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the Führer thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will succeed. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jesse Adams, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, parachutes with his men behind German lines. And as the invasion force surges toward the beaches of Normandy, Private Tom Thorne of the 29th Infantry Division faces the horrifying prospects of fighting his way ashore on Omaha Beach, a stretch of coast more heavily defended than the Allied commanders anticipate. From G.I. to general, this story carries us through the war’s most crucial juncture, the invasion that altered the flow of the war, and, ultimately, changed history.
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Operation, what de Gaulle described as “the supreme battle.” Eisenhower reacted to de Gaulle’s statement with as much self-control as he could muster, but he pulsed with anger at the thought of the man’s moronic bluster. How many Frenchmen will die, he thought, because of that puffed-up idiot? How many of us? But we can say nothing at all, cannot contradict him. There can be no public comment to the French people implying that the Allies and SHAEF don’t support French national interests. But de.
Never write a word to anyone. Not sure he can even read. We’ve never been close or anything. He’s not a nice guy.” “Sorry.” “It’s okay, sir. Since I’m not wet-nursing my brother, and I’m not even a damned Marine, my mom expects me to make that up to her, I guess. Like I said, I can’t help being scared for him. He’s just a kid. Tough damn kid, though. Maybe it’s why I joined the paratroopers. Show her I’m as tough as he is. Or maybe show him. If he’s still alive, he’s up to his ass in jungle.
Was facing far fewer German tanks than were bloodying the British at Caen, and American troop strength was continuing to increase. Despite supply issues and weather, if there was to be a major success in the Overlord campaign, the Americans were in the best position to make it happen. With Collins’s Seventh Corps now able to turn south, Bradley was finally able to assemble the enormous strength required for a large-scale push against the Germans, whose best efforts were aimed at keeping the.
The boundary, our boys on the north, the enemy on the south. Then I find out from my own people that, no, they flew in perpendicular to the road, came in right over our heads. Exactly wrong, exactly what I knew could cause problems. So, with the weather bad, they made blind drops, could only guess where the enemy was. And they guessed wrong! Leigh-Mallory says, Well, it would have been inconvenient to make the change in their flight path, would have taken a couple hours to rebrief the pilots.
Subtle colors, a reflection of the geography of their makeup. Most were from the eastern seaboard, Virginia and Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York. The division did not come into existence until World War One, but the individual infantry regiments had an extraordinary history of their own. All four, the 115th, 116th, 175th, and 176th, could trace their origins to colonial times, and even before. One in particular, the 116th, had been assembled from men who spent their youth in and.