Foot Soldier by Roscoe Blunt

[roger]

I just finished Roscoe "Rocky" Blunt's book, "Foot Soldier". An awesome read that was hard to put down. One of best books that I have read describing ALL the aspects of an infantryman.

[connie]

Foot Soldier by Roscoe Blunt



Just a few notes to follow Roger's great review:



Amazon with kindle, paperback, and hard cover additions -- with a chance to also view a few chapters of the book:
www.amazon.com/Foot-Soldier-Combat-Infantrymans-Europe/dp/0306810905

Review on Amazon:

Through the prism of ultimate victory, the greatest generation that fought World War II has been seen as triumphant. But the brutal reality of the war as endured by combat infantrymen has remained little documented. In Foot Soldier, Roscoe C. Blunt provides an all-too-rare glimpse into the experience of fighting at the Allied front.

Nineteen-year-old "Rockie" arrived on the continent in November 1944, when burnt-out U.S. vehicles still littered the beaches.

His 84th Infantry Division fought at the Roer, through the Battle of the Bulge, and at the crossing of the Rhine all the way to the Elbe; he was briefly taken prisoner by an SS Panzer unit.

Drawing upon his numerous letters home and the journals he scrawled in foxholes and tents, he has given us one of the most detailed, immediate accounts of the Second World War ever written, a memoir sure to take its place among the classics of war literature.