Battle Hardened, Craig S. Chapman
Battle Hardened, Craig S. Chapman
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Battle Hardened
An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day

Author: Craig S. Chapman

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 13 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/24/2018

Synopsis

Battle-Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE Day tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a Second Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander over the course of the Northern European Campaign.

Craig Chapman delves deep into the personal recollections and mental state of Bill Champman as he fought against the Nazis, enduring frontline combat and witnessing horror on a massive scale. Lieutenant Chapman maintains his sanity by isolating his emotions from the chaos of the battlefield, and the young officer turns into a hard-edged warrior who dispassionately orders men to risk their lives yet still manages to hold onto his humanity.

About Craig S. Chapman

Craig S. Chapman draws on his experience as an infantry officer and his skill as a researcher to narrate past military actions in a way that sheds new light on the challenges, triumphs, and miscalculations of armed conflicts, never losing sight of the human experience of war. He has followed up his highly regarded Civil War history, More Terrible Than Victory, with a deeply personal account of his father's combat journey in World War II. Chapman pulls together the details from source documents to relate military actions at the ground level and give the reader an honest and critical appraisal of how battles are won and lost.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on November 26, 2017

I was so very fortunate to preview this book during it’s final stages of publication. My father, Tallie J. Crocker was Bill’s Company Commander during the D-Day invasion, and they served together in the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division throughout the victorious marc......more

Goodreads review by Anicius on May 01, 2018

This is a summary of a review I posted at Amazon. I came from a Marine Corp family and spent a few years in it myself. I also have a personal connection with someone who reviewed a draft of the book before publication. In some ways, Battle Hardened reminds me of the central question in John Keegan’s......more

Goodreads review by Cropredy on February 17, 2022

Two stars is a pretty harsh rating and I was reluctant to rate it so low. Why? The book's author is the son of a decorated (Silver Star) infantry officer (Bill Chapman) who landed at Utah Beach and fought across France into Belgium and then Germany, right up to the end of the war. Bill was wounded tw......more

Goodreads review by Karl on January 11, 2018

Awesome book. The author did an amazing job of researching and then masterfully telling his father’s true story in the liberation of Europe. The title of this book is perfect, as the reader is taken through the inspiring story of Bill Chapman’s battle hardening war campaigns from D-Day through the A......more

Goodreads review by Bob on August 07, 2018

A great view from the round of life in the trenches for an infantry officer in World War Two Europe. There are a bunch of these books. This one was very good. A little heavy on detailed tactics that were hard to follow even with the maps provided. This story did cover divisions not as well represent......more

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