A collection of first-hand accounts gathered from veterans of this airborne division who were involved in the operations of the Second World War. Unknown to historians, these anecdotes bear witness to dramatic episodes, aborted operations and human error. They are illustrated with period photographs.
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Extraordinary! There are stories that veterans do not talk about openly, stories they whisper among themselves at their reunions. These stories range from the hilarious to the astonishing and the horrifying, but they are true. They do not come from a filmmaker's script or a novelist's fertile imagination — they simply haunted the minds of the soldiers who lived them. They were gathered by the author over 35 years of research and interviews with a thousand veterans of the 101st Airborne Division involved
in the operations of the Second World War. This work is richly illustrated with period photographs as well as images of the locations, objects and equipment of the 101st's paratroopers.
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