Kamis, 07 April 2016

Home » » Review: Paratroopers vs. Panzers

Review: Paratroopers vs. Panzers

By No comments

Troopers of the 504th, like these two with a captured SS man, endeared themselves to historian Frank Lunteren with their valor, initiative, and doggedness in battle.BLOCKING KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Battle of the Bulge By Frank van Lunteren. 368 pp. Casemate, 2015. $32.95 his engaging volume reflects a deep love affair between the people of Nijmegen and troopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment that began in September 1944. The 504th’s exploits at the Dutch …

The post Review: Paratroopers vs. Panzers appeared first on HistoryNet.



Related Posts:

  • Paradise Found: ManhattanLandscape ecologists re-create the natural world explorer Henry Hudson encountered when he visited the island of Manhattan 400 years ago. In his new book, Mannahatta: A Natural His… Read More
  • American History Book Review: AlcatrazAlcatraz: The Gangster Years By David Ward with Gene Kassebaum, University of California Press 576 pp., $34.95 Early on the morning of August 19, 1934, a special train—call it the … Read More
  • American History Book Review: Up From HistoryUp From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington Robert J. Norrell, Belknap/Harvard, 508 pp., $35 Up From History is a rescue mission aimed at restoring Booker T. Washington’s tar… Read More
  • American History Review: We Shall RemainWe Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes 5 episodes/3 DVDs approx. 7½ hours This American counter-epic can be as disorienting as Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole—and that is i… Read More
  • Rendezvous: Thoreau & WhitmanThe literary provocateurs sniffed at each other like nervous beasts while they argued heatedly about the common man. When Henry David Thoreau met Walt Whitman in 1856, America’s mo… Read More

0 komentar:

Posting Komentar