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The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division had just finished the battle for "the bridge too far", and, as Christmas 1944 approached, they were settling in for some hard-earned R&R. Then Hitler ordered a massive Nazi counterattack through the Ardennes Forest. The Screaming Eagles were rushed to Bastogne, a small Belgian crossroads where seven roads met and where the lightly armed and under-supplied division became the "cork in the bottle" of the Nazi onslaught. Burgett's stirring memoir (he was 19) recounts how epic courage bought the time needed for Patton's Third Army to redeploy.
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Kirkus 評論
A stirring combat memoir by a WWII paratrooper of the elite 101st Airborne Division, the famed Screaming Eagles. Burgett (Currahee!, not reviewed) writes here of his experiences during the heroic stand of small US forces at the strategic Belgian town of Bastogne, crossroads of seven converging, passable roads in the heavy forests of the Ardennes that the Germans needed to capture to ensure the steady stream of men, machines, and supplies necessary for a quick victory in the Battle of the Bulge. Burgett had already survived the carnage of D-day and Arnhem to become one of the ``old men'' (aged 19) in the successful defense of Bastogne, an epic of courage, fortitude, and spirit that stopped the huge, powerful, armored German army short of the vital port of Antwerp. Surrounded by overwhelming enemy man- and fire-power, the outnumbered light infantry paratroopers plus small elements of the 10th Armored Division and field artillery battalions held the line for weeks. US forces paid a heavy cost in lives and wounded until relieved by General Patton's Third Army attacking the German flank. Burgett lost many of his buddies and original comrades in the bloody struggle'he himself was wounded three times'but the troops never lost the fighting spirit of their heroic leader, Brigadier General Anthony C. (``Nuts'') McAuliffe, who refused to surrender in a very dark time. Burgett's spare prose captures the gritty reality of subzero temperatures; rough, snow-covered terrain; shortages of food, adequate clothes, heavy weapons, and ammunition. He gives the reader a sense of actually being there day to day with the squad and platoon, capturing the tension, excitement, and drama of their seemingly doomed situation, even though the reader may know the final outcome. Burgett bypasses the generals' war-game vantage point to give us a front-line soldier's blood-and-guts eyewitness account of a decisive WWII battle.
《書目》(Booklist)評論
Burgett follows Currahee!, his memoir of the Normandy invasion with the 101st Airborne Division--the "Screaming Eagles" --with the story of the legendary stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. There, surrounded and outnumbered, the 101st and a few other units held the vital junction of seven roads. Burgett's account is unsparingly realistic about the lot of even the elite infantryman. Only partially recovered from its campaign in the Low Countries, the 101st was rushed into combat. For much of the Battle of Bastogne, it was short of ammunition and medical supplies, without air cover, with little or no winter clothing, and with only a motley array of weapons, some of them captured from the Germans or borrowed from other American units. Burgett is eloquent about the hardships and hazards that he survived, while many good friends did not, as well as about some of the 101st's supporters, including an African American howitzer battalion that fought to the limits of its ammunition supply. A sterling addition on the infantryman's World War II. --Roland Green
《圖書館雜誌》(Library Journal )書評
Burgett is a veteran of the 101st Airborne and the author of Currahee!, a memoir of the Normandy invasion written shortly after World War II. This is a memoir of Burgetts experiences during the momentous Battle of the Bulge. His narrative flows from one experience to the next with compelling momentum, and his harrowing accounts of battle will leave readers in awe of the courage of soldiers. Burgett provides enough background and description to set the stage for each part of the battle that swirled around him, and numerous maps and photographs detail the action. Burgetts story is not one that he lived through some distance from the lineshis division was right in the thick of battle. He provides a complete picture of the brutality of war and an excellent account of one of the wars most pivotal battles. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.Mark E. Ellis, Albany State Univ., GA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| 1 Breakthrough | p. 1 |
| 2 Attack | p. 52 |
| 3 Withdrawal | p. 90 |
| 4 The Woods Fight | p. 126 |
| 5 Sunshine and Friendly People | p. 143 |
| Pilogue | p. 223 |