The Parachute Infantry
David Kenyon Webster's
memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth,
camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and
recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first
hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division,
crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel.
From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of
Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating
boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban
warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter
Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid,
varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and
unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up
in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving,
boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of
war--how men fight it, survive it, and remember it.
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
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