Table of Contents
Part 1 The World's Greatest Democracy
Chapter 1 A Quiet Forest 3
Chapter 2 The Berlin Olympics 6
Chapter 3 The Banning 8
Chapter 4 A Wall of Photographs 11
Chapter 5 Lebensraum 15
Chapter 6 The Baseball Pitcher from Piedmont 18
Chapter 7 The Meeting at Berchtesgaden 20
Chapter 8 Invasion! 23
Chapter 9 The Belgian Family 25
Chapter 10 The War Begins 29
Chapter 11 The Baker's Son and the Butcher's Apprentice 33
Chapter 12 The Trip to Paris 37
Chapter 13 The Einsatzgruppen 42
Part 2 The World at War
Chapter 14 The Surprise Attack 47
Chapter 15 The News at Wolfschanze 50
Chapter 16 The Date That Will Live In Infamy 53
Chapter 17 The Changing World 57
Chapter 18 The Christmas Eve Message 60
Chapter 19 The Louisiana Riot 64
Chapter 20 Drafted! 68
Chapter 21 The Risk 70
Chapter 22 The Army's Jim Crow 75
Chapter 23 The GI from Pontotoc County 80
Chapter 24 Christmas of 42 84
Chapter 25 The 155mm Howitzer 88
Chapter 26 The Early Months of '43 93
Chapter 27 The Urgent Message 95
Chapter 28 The Training Manuals 99
Chapter 29 The Baby 103
Chapter 30 Training 107
Chapter 31 The Helper 111
Chapter 32 The Visitor 116
Chapter 33 The New POW Compound 120
Chapter 34 Operation Citadel 122
Chapter 35 Disillusioned 125
Chapter 36 The Song 128
Chapter 37 Late-Night Reflections 133
Chapter 38 The Weakening Reich 136
Part 3 Leaving Camp Gruber
Chapter 39 Training in the U.K 141
Chapter 40 A Stir in Britain 145
Chapter 41 Planning an Assault 148
Chapter 42 D-Day 152
Chapter 43 An Invasion from the West 155
Chapter 44 Arriving at Utah Beach 159
Chapter 45 "Ready! Fire!" 162
Chapter 46 The Symphony Serenade 166
Chapter 47 The Plot 171
Chapter 48 The Terrifying News 175
Chapter 49 The Push out of Normandy 180
Chapter 50 Onward into Battle 182
Chapter 51 The Surrender 187
Chapter 52 Brest 190
Chapter 53 The Battle, Fierce and Deadly 193
Chapter 54 The Capture of Brest 195
Chapter 55 The Liberation of Paris 199
Chapter 56 The Bivouac 202
Chapter 57 The Young, the Old, and the Wounded 206
Chapter 58 The Reports 209
Chapter 59 The Long March to Belgium 213
Chapter 60 The City of Light 217
Chapter 61 The Plan 220
Chapter 62 Bivouacking in Belgium 224
Chapter 63 Operation Greif 225
Part 4 The Battle of the Bulge
Chapter 64 Life at the West Wall 233
Chapter 65 The Rockets 236
Chapter 66 The Secret Revealed 239
Chapter 67 A Sleepless Night 245
Chapter 68 "Just a Phonograph" 249
Chapter 69 "Too Quiet!" 252
Chapter 70 Darkness in the Schnee Eifel 255
Chapter 71 The Attack 259
Chapter 72 "Screaming Meemies!" 262
Chapter 73 The Death Sentence 265
Chapter 74 A Long and Deadly Day 269
Chapter 75 The Breakthrough 272
Chapter 76 Captured! 274
Chapter 77 The P-47 Thunderbolt 277
Chapter 78 Massacre at the Baugnez Crossroads 280
Chapter 79 The Farmhouse 283
Chapter 80 Unexpected Hospitality 286
Chapter 81 The Arrest 290
Chapter 82 The Long Wait 293
Chapter 83 "Though I Walk Through the Valley" 298
Epilogue 1 The Rest of the Story 301
Epilogue 2 What Happened to the Others? 311
Appendix 1 The Wereth 11 Memorial Speech 331
Appendix 2 U.S. Memorial Wereth Info about Memorial and Annual Services, Etc 343
Acknowledgments 345
Endnotes 351
Index 389
