Harold P. Leinbaugh
Forfatter af The Men of Company K
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- male
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- USA
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- Virginia, USA
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- soldier
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- U.S. Army
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- Medlemmer
- 76
- Popularitet
- #233,522
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- 4.5
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- 3
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- 2
The authors quite honestly admit to having a narrow view of the war, seen from Company K’s point of view, but none the less they provide a company POV which details their experience. They arrived after D-Day and were on the continent through the end of the war.
Part of the 9th army they were to the left of the Allied line of U.S. forces. The company goes from their early days, when they are bloodied and become veterans of war. The description of their time from The Bulge to the end of the war provides a perspective of the war that often goes unheralded. So often we discuss Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton and Montgomery but here we find a personal and uncomfortable “Face of Battle.”
Hardly an encompassing or strategic view of the war but nonetheless a Important and personal view.
I wholeheartedly endorse the reading of a personal small unit contribution of the war.… (mere)