He fought for twenty-three days in Normandy, nearly eighty in Holland, thirty-nine in Bastogne, and nearly thirty more in and near Haugenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. In the darkness of D-day morning, Malarkey parachuted into France and within days was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroism in battle. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground for the largest amphibious military attack in history: Operation Overlord.
Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. 277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm
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