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 enlarge | Author: Donald R. Burgett
Creator: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 54215
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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 The book I took to Normandy June 6th, 2004. June 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While most young men today are thinking about "getting a leg over" or what kind of car they should drive, Don Burgett went to war. This is his story.
He wanted to join the army at seventeen but his mother balked at the idea. So he filled out a voluntary induction notice and on his 18th Birthday he joined the army. He promptly volunteered for an exciting and new form of combat by joining the paratroopers.
This book chronicles the daily life of a man whose body and mind where forged to form one of the finest fighting men this country ever produced. He served as part of the legendary 506h PIR of the 101st Regiment.
This book is a priceless gem of American history and a priceless first person account of D-Day from the perspective of a common soldier. It is outstanding in every way. It's an easy read with a gripping story first published in the 1960s.
Among the more interesting aspects of this book are the harsh training in Georgia, the pre-assault preparations, and the assault. Burgett's descriptions are vivid and compete including mention of a Japanese officer's body (I'm still trying to figure this one out), bloody bayonet assaults, Germans entrenched in the hedge rows of Normandy, a charge by horseback and ghastly wounds.
This book is the real deal. If you only read one first person account of the war, then this is the book to read. I've read the series three times and it never gets old.
Mr. Burgett if we ever meet, dinner is on me. Including the Calvados, sir.
Outstanding! April 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Still stands the test of time as a true World War 2 classic! No glamour, just gritty and truthful experiences from an 18 year old who jumped into Hell and lived to tell about it.
This book has been understandably used as source material for other World War 2 books. A must have for any library!
Raw truth April 10, 2007
Great book to gain a glimpse of what it was really like for front line soldiers in WWII. Nice length, not a big 2" thick book. So many veterans don't want to ever discuss the happenings, and this book shows you why.
a gripping account of part of a single soldiers journey April 8, 2007
This is one of the best first hand accounts of combat ever written. Within a mere 200 pages
the author manages to bring across the harrowing ordeals the paratroopers went through
preparing for and then invading Normandy. I have heard stories about the same war from my
grandparents, and what I found amazing is that the book feels like a transcript of such stories,
and I mean this in a good way. My grandparents recounted their experiences in the form of a series of
anecdotes, observations, and remembrances of small details that may have seemed insignificant a the time,
but stuck in their minds for more than 50 years. This book has the very same feeling, with
the remarkable exception that Donald Burgett is unflinching in his description of the horrors
of combat, as well as his reactions to it.
Be sure that you have set aside a few hours when you start reading the book, because it
is almost impossible to put down.
 Currahee! January 13, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book Currahee is about an army division in World War two. It shows the struggles and terrifying experiences of each soldier. These men in 7 days fought some of the most ferocious combats in World War two. The experiences of these men were shocking but true. This book portrays World War two like it really was.
I didn't really like or hate this book, it was in between. This book had a lot of boring parts, but also had a few good parts. This relates to The Pearl because the villagers were fighting Kino for the pearl and that was over a stupid reason and in the war we fought for a stupid reason when we could have just kept the peace like in The Pearl. I would recommend this book to someone who likes war history
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