The Last of the 357th Infantry Audiobook Libro.fm

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For those who loved Stephen E AmbrosesBand of BrothersandEB SledgesWith the Old Breed Drawing on toughness and skills forged in hardscrabble Depressionera North Carolina Bronze Star recipient and expert BAR rifleman Harold Frank invades Normandy fights Germans and endures a grueling stint in a German POW camp where he witnesses the firebombing of Dresden

From DDay to Dresden with a Crack Shot BAR Rifleman

DDay 1944 twentyyearold PFC Harold Frank had moved as one with his battalion onto the shores of Utah Beach pushing into France to cut off and blockade the pivotal Nazioccupied deepwater port of Cherbourg As a recognized crack shot with WW IIs iconic American automatic rifle Frank fought bravely across the bloody hedgerows of the Cotentin Peninsula During the most intense fighting Frank was ambushed and wounded in a deadly ninehour firefight with Germans Taken prisoner and with a bullet lodged under one arm Frank found himself dumped first in a brutal Nazi POW concentration camp then shipped to a grueling work camp on the outskirts of Dresden Germany where the young PFC was exposed to the vengeance of a crumbling Nazi regime the menace of a rapidly advancing Russian militaryand the danger of thousands of Allied bombers screaming overhead during the firebombing of Dresden

Historian Mark Hager builds on hundreds of hours of interviews with Harold Frank sharing the intimate and heartpounding account of Franks journey as a child of the Great Depression to the bloody shores of the DDay invasion into the bowels of Nazi Germany and back to the US where as a young manHarold would spend years resolutely dealing with the lingering effects of starvation rations while determinedly building a new lifea life always mindful of the legacy of his POW experience and his faithful service in Americas hardfought war against Nazi aggression