Provides a definitive account of the 1944 mission of the 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, who dropped deep behind enemy German lines in the Netherlands with the assignment to seize control and secure the road leading to Arnheim and the Rhine, drawing on interviews with hundreds of surviving par[...]

Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, sur[...]

* Firsthand accounts from the men who fought on the ground and in the air over Bastogne The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words. [...]