The Road to War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture
, by Burgauer, StevenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781450218801 | 1450218806
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/30/2010
A riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.
This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham, Jr., who - shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry, where he excelled in basic training, became a junior officer, and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on Omaha Beach.
Six days later, in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire, Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner. He spent the next year as a