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This book gives detailed information on each regiment and battalion of the 101st and its operations on d day. The storyteling is strictly informational, but keeps you excited. Some info and maps are very helpful, this book finally helped me to recreate the famous “jeep ride of Col. Sink”, as it gives detailed maps of most important events of the 101st. If your interested in the 101st or D day or in WWII in general, buy it, it is packed with information.

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Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail.? ?Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop – and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. ? ?This book is primary source material. It is a “must read” for anyone interested in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne Division and World War ll in general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from reading about the action in a narrative history.?

This book attempts to pull info from oral histories, letters, and diaries into a coherant whole and does a great job of it. While it’d be an overstatement to say this book is encyclopedic, it is nearly so and the scope of the book is impressive and you will get a great description of the landings and how all elements of the 101st assembled (or failed to) and what they did. All this is great history, and it is all told through the eyes of individual soldiers and a fantastic book.

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The best thing about the book is the sheer number of personal perspectives it offers. While there are plenty of great books about the 101st and D-Day, this is unique is how it offers the reader vivid descriptions of so many soldiers’ experiences. You truly get a sense of what a crapshoot D-Day was. And since, I suspect, most readers put themselves in the shoes of these soldiers, the stories of soldiers getting killed or captured upon landing or misdropped many miles away from other units will leave a lasting impression.

Also impressive are the stories of medics and glider troops, both things that aren’t usually covered in much detail. The chapter on medics in particular is very illuminating and downright awe-inspring.

Another thing — this book was written well before the 101st stories had been retold and popularized. Reading this narrative truly feels like you are hearing it from soldiers’ mouths before the overarching narratives emerged that have since been turned into now familiar movies and videogames. And you will probably be amazed by how many incredible stories in this book have not yet gotten the Hollywood treatment. There were a lot of heroes who dropped from the sky that day. Awesome book.

D-Day with the Screaming Eagles Info

• Language: English ( Download PDF : )


• ISBN-10: 1932033025


• ISBN-13: 978-1932033021


• Hardcover: 380 pages


• Author: George Koskimaki


• Publisher: Casemate (September 2002)


• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches

About the Author

George Koskimaki is a noted historian of the 101st Airborne Division. His other books include Hell’s Highway and The Battered Bastards of Bastogne. He lives in Northville, MI.

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