Spearhead An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
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Verlag:Random House Publishing Group
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Erscheinungsdatum
19.02.2019
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Random House Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
432 (Printausgabe)
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73784 KB
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Englisch
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9780804176736
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of A Higher Call and Devotion presents the "engrossing" (CNN) true story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich during World War II, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel-and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
"A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing's turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury."-The Wall Street Journal
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, he discovers a hidden talent: He's a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division-"Spearhead"-thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the murderous German Panther and a pattern soon emerged: The lead tank always gets hit.
After Clarence sees his friends cut down at the West Wall and in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fellow comrades-the Pershing, a state-of-the-art "super tank." But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now they will spearhead every attack.
That's how Clarence finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the "Fortress City" of Germany. Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.
What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.
"A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing's turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury."-The Wall Street Journal
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, he discovers a hidden talent: He's a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division-"Spearhead"-thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the murderous German Panther and a pattern soon emerged: The lead tank always gets hit.
After Clarence sees his friends cut down at the West Wall and in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fellow comrades-the Pershing, a state-of-the-art "super tank." But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now they will spearhead every attack.
That's how Clarence finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the "Fortress City" of Germany. Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.
What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.
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