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Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy | 
 enlarge | Author: Donald R. Burgett
Creator: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 128347
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0440236304
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780440236306
ASIN: 0440236304
Publication Date: September 12, 2000
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Condition: This is a new paperback--never read. Cover in perfect condition as are inside pages. A vey nice copy! Ships same or next day.
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Product Description
Seven days in hell
In June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against 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 Airborne Division. Their job was to strike terror into the Nazi defenders, delay reinforcements, and kill any enemy soldiers 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 hedgerows, through blown-out towns and devastated forests. This harrowing you-are-there chronicle captures a baptism by fire of a young Private Burgett, his comrades, and a new air-mobile fighting force that would become a legend of war.
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 A Butcher mit big pockets tells his story! July 17, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Note: This review is for the hardback 1999 edition.
I first read this under the title of As Eagles Scream back in 1977. Having completed a re-reading of it (actually have done it several other times) I wanted to put my review down for others.
Currahee! Is Mr. Burgett's account as a paratrooper from induction thru Normandy serving in A Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. There are four sections; Training for Combat, Waiting for Combat, Combat, and Afterward. All parts give Mr. Burgett's experiences at that particular point in his career. Focus is always on what he sees and experiences, not the "big scene" around him. The Afterward was written when Currahee! was a stand alone book.
My Likes:
Wow, where to begin. Seldom have I read a personal account of warfare that contains the details this book has. Mr. Burgett's memory is exact and to the point. In telling his story he mixes no bones and calls what he did. If he screwed up, he tells you that he did and what the effects were from it. The descriptions are detailed, down to telling you minute details (one of my favorites from when I first read the book was his telling of breakfast in training to be a paratrooper; cornflakes and coffee, either eat the cornflakes dry or wet with coffee. Btw, that was after their morning run). The best section for these details was the Combat section. Here Mr. Burgett shines by describing is drop (in excellent detail), his experiences upon landing, and the running battles with the Germans thru his wounding. Of particular interest is his description of how Dead Man's Corner earned it's name.
My Dislikes:
OK, I have one; I wish Mr. Burgett would have divided the Combat section into two to make for easier reading. The only other possible dislike is that the story cuts off after Normandy and we have to buy The Road to Arnhem: A Screaming Eagle in Holland (World War II Library). There are minor problems with him referencing non-airborne weapons (a M3/M5 Stuart is references as a M3 Lee/Grant and few problems with German equipment).
The Rating:
Five Stars! An Ab Fab writing with a great personal story. I'd love to have toured Normandy with Mr. Burgett. But then reading is book is almost like touring his fight with him. I highly recommend reading this book if you're interested in what the 101st Airborne did during Normandy, particularly from the individual's point of view. There are some excellent photographs, only two maps (I wanted more), the second one is nicely detailed.
CURRAHEE: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy December 30, 2007
Donald Burghett is our everyday guy; on his toes and not a blowhard about his own heroics.....down to earth Warrior of the highest caliber. East to follow,tells Easy Co of the 502d, 101st Airbourne and their OVERUSE and most americans don't know OUR guys were put under "Love HIMSELF" MONTGOMERY, known for wasting his OWN soldiers lives.....Montgomery a blowhard, Patton loud and lost a lot of men but got results and without any doubt along with Easy Co and the rest of 101st & 82nd Airbourne as well as the Brit, French and Polish Airbourne beat Hitlers best, the SS
A very realistic read GARY R TOMS SR War history student for 55 yrs
Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy September 5, 2007
Very well written book, hard to put down, when reading book you feel like you are actually with the soldiers fighting in France.
Great story August 4, 2007
Good work. A truly remarkable story. Well written and told up to standard. Anyone who has pulled on "risers" will appreciate this book.
An amazing war story!!! Lancaster,Ky July 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best war books I've ever read. It is a first hand account of a 101st Airborne soldier telling when he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day.The Author did a really good job putting everything into detail from training to combat and the horrors of war. He talks about people being blown to pieces and mg42 machine guns almost tearin soldiers in two. He talks about a bayonet charge they did on the Germans. This is an excellent book full of intense action. You can't do a whole bunch better than this. I can't wait to read his sequals,Road to Arnhem A Screaming Eagle In Holland,Seven Roads to Hell A Screaming Eagle In Bastogne,and Beyond The Rhine A Screaming Eagle In Germany. I'm Sure these are great books to. If you like world war 2 books buy this. You won't be sorry
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