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Into the Breach: The Life and Times of the 740th Tank Battalion in World War II

by Paul L. Pearson

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Code named Daredevil, the 740th routed Hitler's crack SS Panzer Division in the ice and snow of the Belgian Ardennes, then were twice called to breach Germany's famed Siegfried Line.
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This chronicle, this memoir is a fully wrought account of a separate tank battalion's WWII passage through Belgian and German river valleys and forests of death and destruction. In all, it is a breathtaking tale of courage, of mental and physical stamina in the face of desperate odds for these young citizen soldiers, as Stephen Ambrose liked to call them. The 740th Tank Battalion moved into the breach to stop the German thrust in the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, turning back the feared 1st SS Panzers, then on to crack the famed Siegfried Line twice with two different armies. The story owes its detail and depth to the fact that the author was there as a tank commander; and with research and personal interviews, recounted the story as it actually happened. You will not glimpse much of the author, but you will sense him there with his comrades in every desperate battle in mud, cold, snow, and fog, fighting with the youthful war-weary "Daredevil Tankers." The journey of the 740th is as engrossing as Spielberg's film, Finding Private Ryan,
each validating the other's reality of what war is really like.
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ISBN:
9781425149673
Subtitle:
The Life and Times of the 740th Tank Battalion in World War II
Author:
Pearson, Paul L.
Publisher:
Trafford Publishing
Subject:
Military - World War II
Publication Date:
August 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
9.21x6.14x.69 in. 1.33 lbs.
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