Performed by David GuionTwo cassettes, 2 hoursIn June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against the Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to go behind German lines. These were the Screaming Eagles of the newly formed 101st Airbourne Division. Their job was to strike terror into the Nazi defenders, delay reinforcements, and kill any enemy solders they met. In the next seven days, the men of the 101st fought some of the most ferocious close-quarter combat in all of World War II.Now, Donald R. Burgett looks back at the nonstop, nightmarish fighting across body-strewn fields, over enemy-held hedgegrows, through blown out towns and devastated forests. This harrowing you-are-there chronicle captures the baptism by fire of a young Private Burgett, his comrades and a new air-mobile fighting force that would become a legend of war.

Currahee!: A Paratrooper's Account of the Normandy Invasion

History

Donald R. Burgett

Military

Arrow Books

As Eagles Screamed

Bantam, USA

<p>The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division (fictional Private Ryan's unit) were ready for some well earned rest and recuperation. Following their combat in the Normandy Invasion, the division had been mauled during Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden, the campaign for the bridge too far immoratalized by Cornelius Ryan.</p>

Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Presidio Press

<p>In this, the culmination of Donald R. Burgett's critically acclaimed series of World War II memoirs, takes the reader along with the Screaming Eagles to Victory in Europe (VE) and beyond.</p>

Beyond the Rhine: A Screaming Eagle in Germany

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