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Fearsome Battle » Robert Rogge
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The main character of this remarkable book is combat--what it was like to exist as an infantry soldier under the horrific life and death conditions encountered on World War II battlefields.
Robert Rogge, a 22-year-old American volunteer with the Canadian Army, waded ashore in Normandy on D-Day, 1944. He survived eleven months of intense fighting until VE Day in May 1945.
Out of his wartime experiences, Rogge graphically portrays, in a series of stunning, cinematic episodes, the animal fury of hand-to-hand combat, the terror of attacking tanks with small arms, the stench of burning flesh, the mind-numbing concussions of artillery bombardment, and the heartrending job of picking up the dead in the aftermath of battle.
Rogge shows the reader the raw emotions and almost subhuman existence of frontline soldiers: the filth and squalor of living in slit trenches, the fear and dangers of solitary outpost duty, and the frigid cold and muck of winter, when a hot cup of rum-laced tea is cherished, and a warm bath and clean clothes are rare luxuries.
Besides the blood and guts of battle, Rogge also gives you the quiet times, the joys of liberation, and the uplifting renewal of the human spirit that tenderness can provide. It is all here, told simply, and in a straightforward style so immediate it could have happened yesterday.
For those of you who have never been to war, Fearsome Battle will take you into the heart of combat and leave you forever changed.
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