Company Commander, Charles B. MacDonald
Company Commander, Charles B. MacDonald
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Company Commander

Author: Charles B. MacDonald

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016


Synopsis

As a newly commissioned captain of a veteran US Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat experience was war at its most hellish―the Battle of the Bulge.In this plainspoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald’s side, sharing in all of combat’s misery, terror, and drama. How this green commander gains his men’s loyalty in the snows of war-torn Europe is one of the most unforgettable war stories of all time.

About Charles B. MacDonald

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.

About Tristan Morris

Tristan Morris is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He received an MFA in acting from the New School for Drama in New York City after studying theater and philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University. His work as a voice actor began in 2011 after training with master teachers Scott Brick, Pat Fraley, and Nancy Wolfson. He works in New York City and Denver creating new theatrical works.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric_W

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

Goodreads review by Timothy

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


Quotes

“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