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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
Written by Donald R. Burgett
Narrated by David Guion
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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In December 1944, Hitler launched a desperate massive counterstrike at the Allies, with thirty-eight German divisions slamming through American lines. Then the 101st Airborne was thrown into the fight. Fresh from seventy-two brutal days of combat in Holland, with little food and ammunition, the Screaming Eagles struck back-and stunned the German forces. Then the real battle for the town of Bastogne-and its seven key roads-began...
This powerful, action-packed memoir puts us in the middle of the legendary fighting force known as the Screaming Eagles. Along the way, Donald R. Burgett, just nineteen years old at the time of the battle, vividly captures some of the most horrific action of World War II. From point-blank tank assaults to hand-to-hand combat, Private Burgett and his cold, hungry, and wounded fellow paratroopers stood against an overwhelming enemy force-and won the battle that secured victory for the Allies in World War II.
This powerful, action-packed memoir puts us in the middle of the legendary fighting force known as the Screaming Eagles. Along the way, Donald R. Burgett, just nineteen years old at the time of the battle, vividly captures some of the most horrific action of World War II. From point-blank tank assaults to hand-to-hand combat, Private Burgett and his cold, hungry, and wounded fellow paratroopers stood against an overwhelming enemy force-and won the battle that secured victory for the Allies in World War II.
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Reviews for Seven Roads to Hell
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book follows Burgett's career in the paratroops as a sequel to his first two books where he relates the stories of the D-Day and Operation Market Garden landings. In "Seven Roads" Burgett relates his personal experiences as his unit is called up from a rest area to be thrown into Bastonge ahead of the on-coming German Army in what would be called the Battle of the Bulge. The author is an above-average writer who manages to balance first person experiences with overviews of the battle. Recommended for the military reader.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very interesting first person account of the battles around Bastogne in WW2. Well worth the time to listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent content and I could listen to this narrator for hours
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Insights of the horrific face of one of mot decisive battles during the Normandy invasion of Nazi occupied France- Nuts! Fighting a pitched to the death combat in freezing cold is beyond normal human strength. It depicts that under the helplessness against all odds of being surrounded - these warrior got the job done through sheer conviction of brotherhood of bonding together in the face of certain death.
My father lost two cousins during the Battle of the Bulge and defending Bastogne-buried over there. My mother had a cousin in 101st 501 Airborne Division-Robert Norris. He survived the Normandy jump- fighting all the way to occupying Hitlers Eagle Nest.
Bing Crosby personally met him upon his return stateside to honor his bravery and remember the Band of Brothers who gave their lives for the greatest crusade of defeating fascism and liberating the concentration/POW camps by American alliance with Great Britain/Canada and the Partisans.
It’s said the discipline of these soldiers molded their conviction to go on in prospering American freedom after the end of WWII.
This story is among thousands that I’m grateful for having them shared by the survivors otherwise in our annuals of Democratic history we would be cheated out of the individual human sacrifice these soldiers made without any though of purpose other than it was a war that had to be won at all costs.