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ZIN Product Number: 10292363
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 262 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 080712222X
Release Date: Jan 5, 1994
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is the author's posthumously published account "of his service inNormandy and elsewhere with the {U.S. Army airborne forces}. Webster was a Harvard student who volunteered, and his account was written soon after 1945."(Christ Sci Monit)
| | | | From The Publisher
An English literature major at Harvard with a talent for writing, twenty-one-year-old David Kenyon Webster volunteered for duty in the U.S. Army's parachute infantry in 1943 with the aim of seeing combat firsthand and then describing his experiences. His introduction to warfare came at the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944. Webster went on to see considerable action in the next two years, serving as a combat infantryman in the campaign through northwest Europe, during which he was twice wounded. He wrote Parachute Infantry a short time after the war, relying on his letters home and recollections he penned right after his discharge, making his memoir much closer to the war than most such works. With its abundant dialogue, charged descriptions of places and events, and skillful evocation of emotions, Webster's narrative resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. The memoir is divided into several episodes. The first takes place in May and June of 1944 and provides a detailed, suspenseful account of Webster's participation in the events of D-Day. The next covers several days in September, 1944, when Webster parachuted into Holland and then as part of a group of soldiers advanced through small towns, freeing them as the Germans retreated, until he was shot in the leg and forced to leave his unit. The narrative then picks up in February, 1945, after Webster has returned to his unit, and describes several weeks near the end of the war in Europe, when German resistance was still strong but weakening. Then comes the Allied victory in 1945. We see Webster's platoon arriving at Berchtesgaden (Hitler's vacation retreat in the Alps) right before V-E Day and the celebrations and lax discipline that followed the final collapse of the Third Reich. In the last section of the book, Webster recalls the monotonous routine of occupation duty, concluding with his return to the States in early 1946 to be discharged. Stephen E. Ambrose, director of the Eisenhower Center at
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
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-- Michelle, a secondary social studies teacher, February 23, 2001
Also Recommended: Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
gritty and real
-- r fitzmaurice, February 22, 1999
Excellent first hand account
-- Reginald fitzmaurice, June 1, 1999
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | | | Prologue | 1 | | The Jump into Normandy | 3 | | The Windmills Were Wonderful | 45 | | Our Home Was Secure | 120 | | Hitler's Champagne | 176 | | After the Fighting | 205 | | Winding Down | 240 |
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