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Indlæser... The Men of Company K (1985)76 | 3 | 354,083 |
(4.5) | Ingen | Here is Company K's account of more than one hundred days of combat, from the Siegfried Line through the Battle of the Bulge to meeting up with the Russians on the Elbe River. Thirty-six men of the company were killed in action. And nearly two hundred replacements came into the company - most were evacuated with wounds or illness. This is a book about ordinary men as told by ordinary men, the Willies and Joes of real life : what it was like for men on the line - men coming to terms with themselves and their buddies in trying circumstances. It is also the story of life on the home front : the wives, girl friends, and families who waited for their men to return, and when they returned, resumed the fabric of their lives. The men of Company K is a vivid portrait of the men and women who are the heart of America. --from inside jacket.… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses. . . .
We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. In memory of [36 casualties of K Company] | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. It was Christmas Eve, 1944--near midnight. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. "I'm not certain that I've any faith left in anything (don't talk to me about atheists and foxholes!) but if I do, I think it is in the possibilities of human experience and achievement." Continuing, he commented on how devastating it is "for some to realize the idea of God is entirely man-made and it is surely a relief, as Huxley says, to drop the idea altogether and with it the agonizing question of why God permits war." --- Franklin Brewer, pp. 269-270. | |
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▾Referencer Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelskIngen ▾Bogbeskrivelser Here is Company K's account of more than one hundred days of combat, from the Siegfried Line through the Battle of the Bulge to meeting up with the Russians on the Elbe River. Thirty-six men of the company were killed in action. And nearly two hundred replacements came into the company - most were evacuated with wounds or illness. This is a book about ordinary men as told by ordinary men, the Willies and Joes of real life : what it was like for men on the line - men coming to terms with themselves and their buddies in trying circumstances. It is also the story of life on the home front : the wives, girl friends, and families who waited for their men to return, and when they returned, resumed the fabric of their lives. The men of Company K is a vivid portrait of the men and women who are the heart of America. --from inside jacket. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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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. ( )