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02905aam a2200325 4500 001 3D5AB43AB50611EEB233F11920ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240117010048 020 $a 1948155141 020 $a 9781948155144 040 $d SILO 100 $a Rozell, Matthew A. 245 $a Across the Rhine: $n Vol. 7 $p The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation $h Paperback $b The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Vol. 7 250 $a First 264 1 $a Hartford / New York $b Woodchuck Hollow Press $c 2021 300 $a 358 Pages 490 $a Across the Rhine $v Vol. 7 520 $a VOLUME 7 OF THE BEST SELLING THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW SERIES 520 $a From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we can t afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today. 520 $a In Across The Rhine , you will begin to liberate a continent with our veterans as they scale the cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc overlooking Omaha Beach. You will jump with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment to capture bridgeheads in the Netherlands, and re-group to slug it out in the freezing Ardennes Forest in the winter of 1944-45. The mission will then push you over the Siegfried Line and all the way to Germany s most formidable western natural defense, the swift and swollen quarter-mile wide Rhine River. As spring 1945 arrives, you will be with our GIs as they arrive at the gates of Dachau and have their very souls shaken as they become eyewitnesses to the greatest crime in the history of the world the Holocaust; the Nuremberg War Crimes trials will then bring you face to face with the architects of terror, the most notorious war criminals of the twentieth century. 520 $a In Across The Rhine , our veterans sit down and speak to you directly about what they experienced. World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best; in these narratives you will draw your own lessons. Here are the stories that a special generation of Americans told us for the future when we took the time to be still, to listen, and to draw strength. 650 $a Nonfiction $x HISTORY / Military / World War II $y Military $z WORLD WAR II 600 $a U.S. HISTORY - WORLD WAR II $x World War II History $y U.S. State & Local History $z World War, 1939-1945; Personal narratives, American 610 $a , $x Military History; Modern; 20th Century $y HISTORY/Military/Veterans $z HISTORY/Military/World War II 655 $a Rhine River $x Germany 008 s2021 941 $a 2 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626012743.0 952 $l EYPC755 $d 20240117011633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D5AB43AB50611EEB233F11920ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search