ASIN: B00472O7S8
Publisher: Chi Chi Press
Pages: 185
"After the battle, we picked up a German soldier who had been wounded," said Arnold Brown, who was a company commander in the 90th Infantry Division during World War II. "He had been shot in the leg with a .50-caliber bullet, and he had laid out overnight in this freezing, subzero weather. Both his arms and both of his legs were frozen stiff as a board. He begged us to shoot him. ..." Brown's is one of nine narratives drawn from oral history interviews conducted by Aaron Elson, founder of the World War II Oral History and author of "Tanks for the Memories." Each story is as compelling and dramatic as it is a small but important piece of history. "I couldn't do it," Brown went on. "I asked for a volunteer. Even if he survived, he'd have to have both arms and both legs amputated, and this could have been a mercy killing. But these battle hardened soldiers that had been fighting the ...
