George E. Koskimaki, een voormalige parachutist die in 1944 in Normandië landde, werd een vooraanstaand historicus van de 101st Airborne Division. Zijn uitgebreide werk is gebaseerd op interviews met honderden medeveteranen, waarin hij hun ervaringen uit de eerste hand vastlegde. Koskimaki's bijdragen bieden onschatbare, intieme perspectieven op de belevenissen van soldaten tijdens cruciale historische gebeurtenissen.
A TRULY AMAZING COMPENDIUM. -Gerald J. Higgins, major general, U.S. Army (ret.), from the book's foreword Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. číst celé
September 17, 1944; thousands of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, known as the Screaming Eagles, descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and secure the road leading north to Arnhem and the Rhine. Their success would allow the Allied army to advance swiftly into Germany.
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history and much of it is told in their own words.