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The steel wave a novel of World War II

Jeff Shaara plunges his readers into the minds of the commanders who gave the orders, and the soldiers who carried them out with the rifle and bayonet. Omar Bradley, the stoic and thoughtful American general, is responsible for the lives of every American soldier in the extraordinary operation. Geor...

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Main Author: Shaara, Jeff, 1952-
Corporate Authors: Books on Tape, Inc.
Other Authors: Michael, Paul (Actor)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, 2008.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy > Fiction.
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War stories.
Historical fiction.
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Summary: Jeff Shaara plunges his readers into the minds of the commanders who gave the orders, and the soldiers who carried them out with the rifle and bayonet. Omar Bradley, the stoic and thoughtful American general, is responsible for the lives of every American soldier in the extraordinary operation. George Patton, the war's most outspoken and controversial figure, chafed noisily in England, impatiently waiting while others did the fighting. He served first as a simple decoy with a phantom army at his command, a brilliant deception to convince the Germans that Patton will in fact lead an invasion elsewhere. Once the Allied foothold is secure, Patton is finally turned loose, and energizes the historic breakout that drives the Germans in a chaotic retreat across France. Above it all is Dwight Eisenhower, "Ike", whose overall strategies and command decisions unite the American and British forces into an unstoppable fighting machine. On the mainland, the German defenses along Hitler's Atlantic Wall are commanded by a familiar adversary, Erwin Rommel, one of the 20th century's finest combat soldiers, and the primary German voice from Shaara's previous volume The rising tide. Faced with the task of tossing the Allied invaders back into the sea, Rommel must confront not only the enemy on the beaches, but the enemies in his own high command, including the increasingly deranged rantings of Adolf Hitler. Familiar names emerge too, each with a distinctive voice: Churchill, Marshall, Montgomery, Hitler, and more. From GI to general, this centerpiece of Jeff Shaara's saga on the Second World War carries the reader through the events of the most crucial weeks of the Second World War--events that altered the flow of the war, and ultimately, changed history.
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ISBN: 9781415948187
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Author Notes: Jeff Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on February 21, 1952. He received a degree in criminology from Florida State University in 1974. He was a professional dealer in rare coins for many years and operated his own business in Tampa until the death of his father, Michael Shaara, in 1988, when he became actively involved in the elder Shaara's literary estate.

He continued his father's work by researching the history of the characters his father had brought to life in The Killer Angels, and in 1996 his prequel, Gods and Generals, was published. The book was awarded the American Library Association's Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction and was adapted into a motion picture in 2003. His other works include The Last Full Measure, Rise to Rebellion, The Glorious Cause, The Steel Wave, No Less Than Victory, The Final Storm, A Blaze of Glory, A Chain of Thunder, The Smoke at Dawn, and The Fateful Lightning. He received another Boyd Award for To the Last Man.

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