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SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM IBD

MOUNT SOPRIS PUBLISHING
03 / 2020
9781943593279
Anglès

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SOLDIERS OF FREEDOMáis the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europeáand the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes ofáWilliam McBurney, a tank gunner in theá761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. history, dynamicáGeneral George S. Patton, Jr., commander of the U.S. Third Army, andáAngela Lange, a sixteen-year-oldáGerman resistance fighteráwith theáanti-Nazi Edelweiss Piratesáin Cologne. While Patton',s forces liberate France and Belgium, fight in the grueling Battle of the Bulge, and cross the Rhine to conquer Germany, U.S. tanker William McBurney and hisáBlack Panthersámust fight two wars at once: one against the German army, the other against the racism of their fellow white soldiers. Meanwhile, as the Allies drive into Germany,áEdelweiss PirateáAngela Lange must survive the Allied bombing of Cologne while she engages in fierce resistance against the Hitler Youth andáNazisáand is hunted down by theáGestapo.Fans ofáBeneath A Scarlet Sky,áSpearhead, and theáWWII novelsáofáKen Follettá(Winter of the World, Jackdaws, Eye of the Needle) will enjoy the real-life heroism of theá761st Black Panthersáand legendaryáPattonáto liberate Europe, and theáEdelweiss Piratesáto combat Nazism, in this historically accurate tale of the final epic struggle ináWWII Western Europe.

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