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Title: The Making of a Paratrooper
Condition: New
Subtitle: Airborne Training and Combat in World War II
Author: Kurt Gabel
Contributor: William C. Mitchell (Edited by), Theodore A. Wilson (Foreword by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780700621378
ISBN: 9780700621378
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Genre: Biography
Topic: History, Military History, Law & Politics
Release Date: 07/08/2015
Description: The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel—a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fought against his former countrymen in the Battle of the Bulge.

Gabel conveys with rare immediacy anin-depth look at the training of a paratrooper, the dangers of combat, and his transformation from romantic idealist to warrior. He vividly recounts the fire fights and such episodes as narrow escapes, separation from his battalion and his rescue by another, and the interrogation of prisoners. He tells the full story of his desperate hours on “Dead Man’s Ridge” near Bastogne.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 420g
Book Series: Modern War Studies
Release Year: 2015

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