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Informationen zum Autor Ian Gardner served for five years in Support Company, 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. Always enthusiastic about military history, several years after leaving 10 Para Ian became interested in World War II US Paratroopers. After a visit to Normandy in 2000 he decided to focus on the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which led to the critically acclaimed trilogy Tonight We Die As Men , Deliver Us From Darkness and No Victory in Valhalla . He is also the author of Airborne: The Combat Biography of Ed Shames of Easy Company. He is married with two grown-up children and lives near Aldershot in Hampshire. Klappentext The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment - the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers - this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe. Exhausted and battered following the disastrous Market-Garden campaign, the 506th were due three months of R&R, but were rushed back in to halt the desperate German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. When the offensive was finally halted after months of fighting the 506th pushed on into Germany where Ed Shames was the first Allied soldier to enter Dachau before the unit were sent to occupy Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgarden. Based on extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, this volume relives the struggles of the paratroopers of the renowned 'Screaming Eagles' in some of the toughest fighting of World War II, bringing the story of their defiant unit to its conclusion.This final installment of the story of the 3/506 PIR covers its involvement in the bitter fighting to hold Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, is liberation of Nazi concentration camps and occupation of the Berchtesgarden, Hitler's mountain retreat. Zusammenfassung The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment - the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers - this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe. Exhausted and battered following the disastrous Market-Garden campaign, the 506th were due three months of R&R, but were rushed back in to halt the desperate German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. When the offensive was finally halted after months of fighting the 506th pushed on into Germany where Ed Shames was the first Allied soldier to enter Dachau before the unit were sent to occupy Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgarden. Based on extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, this volume relives the struggles of the paratroopers of the renowned 'Screaming Eagles' in some of the toughest fighting of World War II, bringing the story of their defiant unit to its conclusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Ed Shames Preface by George Koskimaki Acknowledgments Introduction by James "Pee Wee" Martin 1. "Johnny we hardly knew you" Camp Châlons, Mourmelon-le-Grand - November 28-December 18, 1944 2. "Ghost front" December 17-19, 1944 3. "Today is the only reality" December 20, 1944 4. "Epitaph for a generation" December 21-24, 1944 5. "The deep six" The worst winter in 50 years 6. "Steel whirlwind" Post-Christmas breakthrough 7. "Hell night" Clearing the Fazone Woods - January 9, 1945 8. "Salute the new dawn" The final attacks on Foy and Noville - January 13-17, 1945 9. "After the storm" Alsace Lorraine and the Colmar Pocket - January 21-February 25, 1945 10. "Home alive in '45" Return to Mourmelon - February 26-April 2, 1945 11. "Setting sons" The Ruhr, western Germany - April 3-24, 1945 12. "Striking back" The plight of the 3rd Battalion POWs - June 1944-May 1945 13. "Candle for the dead"
