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Tank Driver is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hartman gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. He tells about the concentration camps, the spectacle of the defeated Germans, and the dramatic encounter with Russian soldiers in Austria that marked combat's end. This is a vivid, personal account of some of the most dramatic fighting of World War II.

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Author:   J. Ted Hartman
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.259kg
ISBN:  

9780253014979

ISBN 10:   0253014972
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 October 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Maps Foreword by Spencer C. Tucker Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Army Beckons 2. Basic Training at Camp Roberts 3. ASTP at the University of Oregon 4. Camp Cooke 5. Going Abroad 6. England 7. Forced March across Northern France 8. Entry into Battle 9. The Ambush at Noville 10. First and Second Drives to the Rhine 11. Bloody Easter 12. Bayreuth to Grafenwohr 13. Release of Concentration Camp Prisoners 14. Fierce Battle for the City of Regen 15. The Intensity of the Drive Continues 16. Mauthausen, Gusen I and Gusen II 17. Mass Surrender and Death March 18. Adjusting to Peacetime 19. Waiting to Go Home 20. Belgium Remembers: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge 21. Belgium Revisited, May 2000: Belgian Memorial Day Bibliography Index

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[A] well-balanced, often moving look at one man s war and every man s war. World War II

[A] well-balanced, often moving look at one man's war and every man's war. -World War II

Author Information

J. Ted Hartman was 19 years old when he got behind the controls of a tank and drove it into battle. After receiving a discharge from the army, he took a medical degree and became an orthopedic surgeon. He was founding chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University, from which he is now retired.

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