Company Commander

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