Soldiering for freedom
Subtitle: a GI's account of World War II
By: Herman J. Obermayer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas A & M University military history series -- 98.
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Obermayer, Herman J. -- Correspondence.; Obermayer, Leon -- Correspondence.; Obermayer, Julia -- Correspondence.; United States. -- Army. -- Combat Engineer Battalion, 1291st.; Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.; Military engineers -- United States -- Correspondence.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives, American.
Description: "From school, from basic training, and later from Europe, Obermayer wrote home with vivid descriptions of life in the Army. Reflective and observant, he recorded his views of both the French and German reactions to the American occupation force, race relations among enlisted men, and the problems of supplying the troops as they crossed Europe after the Normandy invasion."

"One of the few people alive today to have seen Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and other leaders of Third Reich, Obermayer wrote compellingly about the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg, describing Goering's leadership qualities when stripped of the symbols of rank. A Jew himself, Obermayer explained his reactions at the trials when he witnessed the first documentary confirmation that six million Jews had been killed in the Holocaust. He knew and wrote about the official U.S. Army hangman at Nuremberg."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.