Jumat, 21 April 2017

WWII Book Review: Dog Company

Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc By Patrick K. O’Donnell. 320 pp. Da Capo, 2012. $26.  On June 6, 1984, Ronald Reagan’s rousing 40th anniversary speech on the cliffs of Normandy’s Pointe du Hoc thrust World War II’s Ranger battalions back into history’s spotlight—a sharp contrast to their historical experience as the U.S. …

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