Currahee!, Donald R. Burgett
Currahee!, Donald R. Burgett
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A Screaming Eagle at Normandy

Author: Donald R. Burgett

Narrator: David Guion

Abridged: 1 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2001

Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Donald R. Burgett lives in Howell, Michigan. He is the author of Seven Roads to Hell and the soon to be published The Road to Arnhem.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk

So, how do you rate a war memoir? Literary merit? Hardly. Consider: there are numerous scenes in here that would have been considered over-the-top or unrealistic had you come across them in a fictional setting. Problem is: this really happened (or at least there is no reason to doubt the book's clai......more

Goodreads review by Bon Tom

Look. In strange, perverted world of today, people give thumbs up and get all incontinent with emojis for green vomit of other people dogs and New Age pink breakfasts. So there's no option other than 5 stars for real life account of key historical events in which people died as easily as, say, gods g......more

Goodreads review by Natalie

“At its conception and activation, the 101st Airborne had no history, but it had a “rendezvous with destiny.” We kept that rendezvous with destiny, and we gave it a history.” Burgett’s memoir is a frank and gruesome account of his “seven days in Hell”. Spanning from combat training to a week after t......more

Goodreads review by Jim

I never had the chance to talk to anyone who participated in D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. But, having read this autobiographical account of Donald Burgett's experiences in the 101st Airborne Division, I've come close. Burgett writes this book as if you were his grandchild,......more

Quotes

"A fascinating tale of personal combat...portrays the courage, endurance, initiative and fighting qualities of an American soldier on a European battlefield of World War II."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I have read a lot of books on the experience of combat from both World Wars, and this is by a longshot the best. Without qualification."
-- Stephen E. Ambrose (from the Foreword)

A Military Book Club Selection

"Without false heroics, everything is here, man's cruelty and kindness under stress, fear and courage, hope and despair."
-- Life

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Donald R.Burgett Seven Roads To Hell
A screaming eagle at Bastogne "A marvelous book."
-- Stephen E. Ambrose

"A stirring combat memoir."
-- Kirkus Reviews

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