

Company Commander
Author: Charles B. MacDonald
Narrator: Tristan Morris
Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/28/2016
Author: Charles B. MacDonald
Narrator: Tristan Morris
Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/28/2016
Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990) served in four European campaigns and received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. After the war, he wrote Company Commander, regarded as a World War II classic. He served as deputy chief historian for the United States Army, writing several of the Army’s official histories of World War II.
Tristan Morris is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator who originally hails from Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. He studied theater and philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University and proceeded to earn his MFA in acting from the New School for Drama in Manhattan. Tristan is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity.
This was written shortly after the end of the war. The author went on to become a military historian and his experiences as a company commander parallel those of Winters in Band of Brothers. This is not for the faint-hearted and the names have not been changed to protect the innocent - or the dead.......more
Supurb memoir of a Company Commander who joins his unit as a replacement in the fall of 1944. He earns a Silver Star for holding back the German advance at the southern edge of the "Bulge" longer than anyone thought possible, then drives through to meet the Russians on the Elbe. Without a pause, he'......more
Real life at the sharp end of World War 2. Written very shortly after hostilities ceased in that classic veteran’s matter of fact style, Macdonald takes us from the Siegfried Line in the Ardennes, through the Battle of the Bulge, and to the end of the war in the Czechoslovakia. However this is differe......more
I have even meaning to read this book for years but kept putting of getting a copy. Recently a friend gave ma a box of books and there was a copy in the box. I figured that was a sign I needed to read it finally. I wasn’t disappointed in the slightest. Excellent first hand account war story. Very re......more
“An authentic account of war as experienced by the men of an infantry company who had nothing between them and the enemy but their own rifles…Impressive.”
New York Times“Nowhere, I will venture to say, will there be a more honest, unassuming portrayal of the hopes and dreams and fears of a young infantry captain.”
Saturday Review