Other Airborne Books not to be missed
Easy Company Medic Eugene Roe: The Book: Other Airborne Books not to be missed
There are thousands of books written on the broad subject of WWII. Please feel free to add your favorites and/or reviews.
- Mark Bando's 101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles at Normandy
- Mark Bando's The 101st Airborne: From Holland to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- Mark Bando's Breakout at Normandy: The 2nd Armored Division in the Land of the Dead
- Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Airborne Battle of World War II
- James Huston's Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II
- Christopher Andersons' Screaming Eagles: The 101st Airborne Division from D-Day to Desert Storm
- Bill Rentz' Geronimo!: U. S. Airborne Uniforms, Insignia and Equipment in World War II
- The Story of a Solider - Member of H Co., 506th PIR by Ivan Paul Mehosky
- Robert Bowen's Fighting With the Screaming Eagles : With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne
- Charles Whiting's Screaming Eagles at War : From D-Day to Berchtesgaden
- Patrick K. O'Donnell's Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
- John D. McKenzie's On Time, On Target
- Donald R. Burgett's Currahee! : a Screaming Eagle at Normandy
- Donald R. Burgett's Seven Roads to Hell
- Donald, R. Burgett's Beyond the Rhine
- James A. Huston's Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II
- Gordon L. Rottman's U.S. Army Airborne, 1940-1990: The First Fifty Years, Vol. 31
- Hugh Cole - The Battle of the Bulge
- George E. Koskimaki - D-Day With the Screaming Eagles
- Leonard Rapport - Rendezvous With Destiny
- George E. Koskimaki - Hell's Highway
- Ross S. Carler - Those Devils in Baggy Pants
- James B. Simms (506th PIR) - A Soldier’s Armageddon
- Harris T. Mitchell - The Story of the First Airborne Battalion
- Gerard M. Devlin - Paratrooper! The Saga of U.S. Army and Marine Parachute and Glider Combat Troops during World War II
- William B. Breuer - Geronimo! : American Paratroopers in World War II
- General Maxwell Taylor - The Sword and the Pen
- Tim Saunders - Hell's Highway : Us 101st Airborne & Guards Armoured Division (Battleground Europe:Market Garden)
- Donald R. Burgett - The Road to Arnhem : A Screaming Eagle in Holland
- Trevor Nevitt Dupuy - Hitler's Last Gamble : The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945
- Jerry Autry - General William C. Lee : Father of the Airborne : Just Plain Bill
- Sir Crookenden Napier - Dropzone Normandy : The Story of the American and British Airborne Assault on D-Day 1944
- Charles Whiting - The Last Assault : The Battle of the Bulge Reassessed
- Gerard M. Devlin - Silent Wings : The Saga of the U.S. Army and Marine Combat Glider Pilots During World War II
- Peter Elstob - Bastogne the Road Block
- Jerry Autry - General William C. Lee : Father of the Airborne : Just Plain Bill
- Ralph M. Mitchell, Colonel, U.S. Army - The 101st Airborne Division's Defense of Bastogne
- Michel De Trez - Orange Is the Color of the Day : Pictorial History of the American Airborne Forces in the Invasion of Holland
- Robert Webb - Freedom Found (G/506th)
- John M. Taylor - An American Soldier: The Wars of General Maxwell Taylor
- Michel De Trez - At the Point of No Return: Pictorial History of the American Paratroopers in the Invasion of Normandy
- Michel De Trez - Orange Is the Color of the Day: Pictorial History of the American Airborne Forces in the Invasion of Holland
- Carl Smith - U.S. Paratrooper 1941-1945: Weapons, Armor, Tactics (Warrior Series, 26)
- Michel De Trez - American Warriors: Pictorial History of the American Paratroopers Prior to Normandy
- Charles Whiting - The Screaming Eagles at War: With the 101st Airborne from D-Day to Berchtesgaden
- After the Battle - different titles
- Those Devils In Baggy Pants 09/04 08:25pm
- Ruggero, Ed - Combat Jump : The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943
- Richard Killblane, Jake McNiece - The Filthy 13: From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle's Nest: The 101st Airborne's Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers
- Mark Bando - Vanguard of the Crusade: The US 101st Airborne Division in WWII
- Michel de Trez - The Way We Were: Col. Robert M. Piper "Bob": Headquarters Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (Wwii American Paratroopers Portrait Series)
- James Megellas - All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe
- Gregory Orfalaea - Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge
- John M. Taylor - American Soldier (The wars of Gen. Maxwell Taylor)
- Jerry Autry, Kathryn Autry - General William C. Lee, Father of the Airborn...Just Plain Bill
- Robert J. Houston - D-Day to Bastogne: A Paratrooper Recalls World War II
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THE STORY OF A SOLDIER by Ivan Paul Mehosky is compelling as it is powerful. It is the story of Edward Mehosky, son of a Polish immigrant who grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression, and distinguished himself as an officer in the Army during a career that spanned three decades and three wars. One of America's unsung heros, Edward Mehosky was as humble as he was tough, and innovative as he was resourceful.
In 1940 when a broken leg precluded Edward from playing professional baseball, he joined the Army. Two years later he joined the 506th Parachute Regiment and went overseas with the 101st Airborne Division.
Mehosky's account as a platoon leader during the night drop on Normandy on 'D-Day,' and then as a company commander at the Battle of the Bulge during the heroic defense of Bastogne against numerically superior enemy forces, are thrilling and riveting stories that never made the history books.
During the Korean War, Edward volunteered for the 40th Infantry Division and commanded a rifle company on a steep, frozen ridge facing Chinese positions. With the 502nd Airborne in Germany, Mehosky and his men captured a Green Baret unit and caused quite a stir. Colonel Mehosky retired in 1971.
Some things should never change such as the leadership and preparedness embodied in Colonel Mehosky, a common thread throughout the book. It is qualities such as these that will sustain our citizen soldiers in future wars.
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By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (209.246.129.234 - 209.246.129.234) on Thursday, October 25, 2001 - 09:12 am: