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"I loved the infantry," famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle said, "because they were the underdogs. There were the mud, rain, frost, and wind boys. They had no comforts and they even learned to live without the necessities. And in the end they were the guys without whom the battle could not have been won." This book tells the stories of these soldiers. From the muddy trenches of France in World War I to the arid landscape of Iraq, "War Stories of the Infantry" immerses the reader in the immediate drama of combat as American infantrymen, Army and Marine Corps, have experienced it. In its pages, infantrymen tell of their struggles with the enemy, the terrain, and the weather, as well as their own fears and doubts in battle. In the humid heat of a faraway jungle, in the bone-chilling cold of a Korean mountaintop, we endure what they endure, see what they see--as they rout the enemy, open their eyes in a field hospital, or suffer the indignities of a POW camp. These are the stories of the largely unsung heroes who do the lion`s share of fighting and dying for their country while protecting the freedoms and liberties that many of us take for granted.
ISBN 9780760335697
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Pages : 312
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