FROM OMAHA BEACH TO NUREMBERG : a memoir of world war ii combat and the international military ... tribunal.

"A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division. On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: ALTMAN, DANIEL
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] MCFARLAND, 2019.
Temas:
Altman, Daniel, > 1921-
United States. > Army. > Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 391st > Biography.
United States. > Army > Military life > History > World War, 1939-1945.
International Military Tribunal.
United States. > Army.
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unités > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Front occidental.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Military campaigns.
Regimental histories.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
Biographies.
History.
Personal narratives > American.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel
  • Preface by Fawn Zwickel
  • 1-Hell
  • 2-Lucky Foot
  • 3-Starving and Battered
  • 4-Surviving Normandy
  • 5-Face to Face with the Siegfried Line
  • 6-Woodland Splinters
  • 7-Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit
  • 8-My Private Battle of the Bulge
  • 9-War's-Over Off to the Next Assignment
  • 10-Camp Ashcan
  • 11-Transporting Guilty Cargo
  • 12-Haunted Forever
  • 13-Camp #219, Dachau
  • 14-Buchenwald
  • 15-Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz
  • 16-Standing Guard at Nuremberg
  • 17-Homesick
  • 18-The Final Ride Home
  • 19-Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin
  • 20-Killing Time to Stay Alive
  • 21-Fixing the Propeller
  • 22-An Empty Welcome Home
  • 23-A Changed Man at the VA
  • 24-Compartmentalizing
  • A Last Word
  • Author's Military Service
  • References
  • Index

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