Easy Company soldier
Subtitle: the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
By: Don Malarkey with Bob Welch.
Contributors: Welch, Bob, 1954-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780312378493
Subjects: Malarkey, Don, -- 1921-; United States. -- Army. -- Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. -- Company E; United States. -- Army -- Parachute troops -- History; World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives, American.; Biography.
Description: 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 became 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 epic story of how an adventurous kid from Oregon became a leader of men.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.