BOOK PARATROOPER WAR/ALL THE WAY TO BERLIN (BOX50)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 A PARATROOPER AT WAR IN EUROPE: ALL THE WAY TO EUROPE

AUTHOR: JAMES MEGELLAS: THE 82d AIRBORNE'S MOST DECORATED OFFICER

PUBLISHER: A PRESIDIO PRESS BOOK: PUBLISHED BY THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP

COPYRIGHT    2003 BY JAMES MEGALLAS

ISBN:  0-89141-836-9

IN MID-1943 JAMES MEGELLAS, KNOWN AS "MAGGIE" TO HIS FELLOW PARATROOPERS, JOINED THE 82d AIRBORNE DIVISION.  HIS FIRST TASTE OF COMBAT WAS IN THE RUGGED MOUNTAINS OUTSIDE NAPLES.  SOON, MAGGIE'S OUTFIT WAS TAPPED TO RUN SOME OF THE MOST STAR CROSSED MISSION OF WORLD WAR TWO.  FROM THE FIASCO ON THE BEACH TO ANZIO TO FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S VAINGLORIOUS OPERATION MARKET GARDEN IN HOLLAND--MONTHS OF HARD COMBAT WERE FOLLOWED BY THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE---AND THE LONG HARD ROAD ACROSS GERMANY TO BERLIN.            MEGELLAS WAS THE MOST DECORATED OFFICER OF THE 82d AIRBORNE DIVISION AND SAW MORE ACTION DURING THE WAR THAN MOST. YET ALL THE WAY TO BERLIN IS MORE THAN JUST MAGGIE'S WORLD WAR TWO MEMOIR. THROUGHOUT THE NARRATIVE, HE SKILLFULLY INTERWEAVES STORIES OF THE OTHER PARATROOPERS OF H. COMPANY, 504th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT.  THE RESULT IS A REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF MEN AT WAR.

ARTICULATE.....NONSTOP ACTION, EXCITING, AND VIVID....THIS IS AN HONEST PICTURE OF MEN AT WAR, THE GRITTY TRUTH ABOUT CLOSE COMBAT, INDIVIDUAL HEROISM, AND SMALL UNIT LEADERSHIP. QUTOE FROM: THE TIMES RECORD (BRUNSWICK, ME)