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The true history of the bloodiest and most remarkable march to triumph of the Second World Battle: the battlefield odyssey of an maverick U.S. Military officer and his infantry device as they fought for over five hundred days and nights to liberate European countries - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From July 10, 1943, the particular date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when triumph in European countries was announced - the whole time it took to liberate European countries - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than those people commanded by Felix Sparks, who possessed entered the conflict as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Looking forward to Work" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Department. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical soldiers, when the chances on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance - so when the difference between defeat and triumph was a subject of character, not methods or armor. Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and a large number of his men, as well as over five years of research in European countries and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the very most inspiring and heroic journeys in military services history. During the period of four amphibious invasions, Sparks increased from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, eventually enduring bitter and needy winter combat against the diehard SS on the Fatherland's edges. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion at night forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across European countries and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler. Inside the dying days and nights of the 3rd Reich, Sparks and his men crossed the last great barrier in the Western, the Rhine, and then experience some of the most intense street fighting and close fight suffered by Us citizens in WWII. If they finally attained the gates of Dachau, Hitler's first and most notorious attentiveness camp, the Thunderbirds confronted moments that robbed the mind of reason. With triumph within understanding, Sparks confronted the ultimate test of his mankind: in the end he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who possessed caused untold suffering and misery? Written with the narrative drive and vibrant immediacy of Kershaw's past best-selling catalogs about North american infantrymen in WWII, The Liberator is a tale for the age groups, an intensely real human and dramatic consideration of one of history's biggest warriors and his unheralded role in America's finest achievement - the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Category: World War II