Non-Fiction Book Club discusses "The Liberator" by Alex Kershaw
Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces theremarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe"from the first landing in Italy to the final death throes of the Third Reich.Over five hundred bloody days, Sparks and his infantry unit battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy andFrance, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the die-hard S.S. on the Fatherland's borders.