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- Tank Driver: With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
Tank Driver is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hartman gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. He tells about the concentration camps, the spectacle of the defeated Germans, and the dramatic encounter with Russian soldiers in Austria that marked combat's end. This is a vivid, personal account of some of the most dramatic fighting of World War II.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiv-xxv
- 1 The Army Beckons
- pp. 1-5
- 2 Basic Training at Camp Roberts
- pp. 6-13
- 3 ASTP at the University of Oregon
- pp. 14-22
- 4 Camp Cooke
- pp. 23-36
- 5 Going Abroad
- pp. 37-40
- 8 Entry into Battle
- pp. 53-60
- 9 The Ambush at Noville
- pp. 61-70
- 11 Bloody Easter
- pp. 80-87
- 12 Bayreuth to Grafenwohr
- pp. 88-93
- 14 The Fierce Battle for the City of Regen
- pp. 100-103
- 15 The Intensity of the Drive Continues
- pp. 104-108
- 16 Mauthausen, Gusen I, and Gusen II
- pp. 109-116
- 17 Mass Surrender and Death March
- pp. 117-119
- 18 Adjusting to Peacetime
- pp. 120-125
- 19 Waiting to Go Home
- pp. 126-138
- Bibliography
- pp. 157-158
- About the Author
- p. 165
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253109828
Related ISBN(s)
9780253014979, 9780253342119
MARC Record
OCLC
52967761
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No