Join Battenkill Books for a talk and book signing by local historian and author Matthew Rozell. His books include:
A Train Near Magdeburg
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. I, Pacific War
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. II, Air War
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. III, Air War 2, PoW
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. IV, North Africa/Italy
NEW: The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. V, D-Day and Beyond
NEW BOOK AVAILABLE AT EVENT: The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. V, D-Day and Beyond
By the end of 2019, fewer than 400,000 of our WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories?
This book brings you more of the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed. From the bloody beach at Omaha through the hedgerow country of Normandy and beyond, American veterans of World War II—Army engineers and infantrymen, Coast Guardsmen and Navy sailors, paratroopers and glider pilots, military policemen and tank crewmen—sit down with you across the kitchen table and talk about what they saw and experienced, tales they may have never told anyone before.
World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best; in these narratives you will draw your own lessons.
As we forge ahead as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ourselves as Americans to a broader appreciation of what we stand for.
Featuring the testimony of 16 veterans in proper historical contextualization and new author insights.
Oct 17, 2024, 12 to 2 PM
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