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Author: Cleve A. Barkley | paperback
NORMANDY – HUERTGEN – THE BULGE These places are synonymous with horror, death, and destruction to those who fought there. This is one man's story. Truly a rite of passage, the narrative records young Harold Barkley's journey from teenage adolescence to "old man" in little more than two years while participating in the savage combats of the European Theater of war.
From basic training in Texas to a holding camp in England, to combat in Normandy and the snowy forests of Germany, this book tells it all. Barkley and his buddies lived in miserable conditions while losing comrades on a near-daily basis to an ever-mounting casualty list. Eventually, Barkley too would be wounded, recuperate, then return to the meat grinder of war only to be struck down once again by enemy fire. In the end, he, like so many others, was broken by the strain of combat and removed from the line while another young replacement was called to take his place somewhere. Fraught with the endemic dangers, fears, and tragedies of combat, it was an experience young Barkley would never, ever forget.
A true story written by the soldier's son and supported by numerous veteran interviews and exhaustive archival research.
