Donald Burgett Seven Roads To Hell

Donald R. Burgett. Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne. G. K. Hall & Company, 2000-04
0783889941 From Library Journal Burgett is a veteran of the 101st Airborne and the author of Currahee!, a memoir of the Normandy invasion written shortly after World War II. This is a memoir of Burgetts experiences during the momentous Battle of the Bulge. His narrative flows from one experience to the next with compelling momentum, and his harrowing accounts of battle will leave readers in awe of the courage of soldiers. Burgett provides enough background and description to set the stage for each part of the battle that swirled around him, and numerous maps and photographs detail the action. Burgetts story is not one that he lived through some distance from the lineshis division was right in the thick of battle. He provides a complete picture of the brutality of war and an excellent account of one of the wars most pivotal battles. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.Mark E. Ellis, Albany State Univ., GA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Burgett follows Currahee!, his memoir of the Normandy invasion with the 101st Airborne Division--the "Screaming Eagles" --with the story of the legendary stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. There, surrounded and outnumbered, the 101st and a few other units held the vital junction of seven roads. Burgett's account is unsparingly realistic about the lot of even the elite infantryman. Only partially recovered from its campaign in the Low Countries, the 101st was rushed into combat. For much of the Battle of Bastogne, it was short of ammunition and medical supplies, without air cover, with little or no winter clothing, and with only a motley array of weapons, some of them captured from the Germans or borrowed from other American units. Burgett is eloquent about the hardships and hazards that he survived, while many good friends did not, as well as about some of the 101st's supporters, including an African American howitzer battalion that fought to the limits of its ammunition supply. A sterling addition on the infantryman's World War II. Roland Green --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title..

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Donald R. Burgett: Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne, Dell 2000-05 ISBN: 0440236274
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Donald R. Burgett: Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne, Dell 2000-05 ISBN: 0440236274
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Burgett, Donald: SEVEN ROADS TO HELL A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne, Novato, California Presidio Press 1999
0891416803 Near Fine

Black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, xv, 225pp, numerous maps, plus 10pp photo section. Dust jacket with front cover image: Infantryman on a one-man sortie, Christmas Eve, 1944, Belgium. Book has a small inadvertent pen mark on the front free endpaper, tiny scuff on first page, back board bowed; dust jacket has a mere hint of light rubbing; appears unread. "Private Burgett's memoir (he was not yet twenty years old at the time of the battle) is an exciting and enduring testament to the Screaming Eagles and their epic defense of Bastogne." First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - 8-1/2" x 5-1/2"

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