Henry Giles
Autore di Harbin's Ridge
Sull'Autore
Opere di Henry Giles
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- Sesso
- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 77
- Popolarità
- #231,246
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
The 291st was "those damned engineers" that figured heavily in delaying and stopping Joachim Peiper. Giles was actually in a Repple Depple, trying to get back to the unit when Wacht am Rhein erupted, so he missed a good bit of the fighting in December. He spent that part of the book showing the huge inadequacies of the replacement system during the war. He was able to use first hand accounts from his comrades to tell the story of the defense of the Ambleve and other rivers,
Giles was evacuated with a badly infected ear in October and was released to return to his unit a week or two later. It was not until late December that he was able to get back to his unit, and this was only after he was able to locate the 291st and they sent someone to retrieve him.
This was good book, well edited. Worth the read and I wished I had been able to read it prior to visiting the north shoulder of the Bulge in 2014.… (altro)