From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7923-5 (ISBN)
A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division.
On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on the Nazi atrocities performed at the concentration camps for the trials at Nuremburg.
Beginning with his plunge into the blood-tinged surf at Omaha Beach, his candid, often graphic memoir is presented here as told to his granddaughter.
The late Sgt. Daniel Altman grew up in the Bronx, New York. He enlisted in the Army at 21 and served in the ETO. When he came state-side he integrated back into civilian life and repressed his memories of the war. He lived in Verona, New Jersey. Fawn Zwickel is enrolled in a combined MA/PsyD program in psychology at the College of Saint Elizabeth. She lives in Rockaway, New Jersey.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel
Preface by Fawn Zwickel
1—Hell
2—Lucky Foot
3—Starving and Battered
4—Surviving Normandy
5—Face to Face with the Siegfried Line
6—Woodland Splinters
7—Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit
8—My Private Battle of the Bulge
9—War’s Over—Off to the Next Assignment
10—Camp Ashcan
11—Transporting Guilty Cargo
12—Haunted Forever
13—Camp #219, Dachau
14—Buchenwald
15—Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz
16—Standing Guard at Nuremberg
17—Homesick
18—The Final Ride Home
19—Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin
20—Killing Time to Stay Alive
21—Fixing the Propeller
22—An Empty Welcome Home
23—A Changed Man at the VA
24—Compartmentalizing
A Last Word
Author’s Military Service
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 photos, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7923-1 / 1476679231 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7923-5 / 9781476679235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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