Liberation road: a novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express
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World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 4.
Series:
World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 4
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
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With his acclaimed novels of World War II, David L. Robbins awakened a generation to the drama, tragedy, and heroism of some of history’s greatest battles. Now he delivers a gripping and authentic story set against one of our greatest wartime achievements: the Red Ball Express, six thousand trucks and twenty-three thousand men–most of them African-American–who forged a lifeline of supplies in the Allied struggle to liberate France. June 1944. The Allies deliver a staggering blow to Hitler’s Atlantic fortress, leaving the beaches and bluffs of Normandy strewn with corpses. The Germans have only one chance to stop the immense invasion–by bottling up the Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula. There, in fields crisscrossed with dense hedgerows, many will meet their death while others will search for signs of life. Among the latter are two very different men, each with his own demons to fight and his own reasons to risk his life for his fellow man. Joe Amos Biggs is an invisible “colored” driver in the Red Ball Express, the unheralded convoy of trucks that serves as a precious lifeline to the front. Delivering fuel and ammunition to men whose survival depends on the truckers, Joe Amos finds himself hungering to make his mark and propelled into battle among those who don’t see him as an equal–but will need him to be a hero. A chaplain in the demoralized 90th Infantry, Rabbi Ben Kahn is a veteran of the first great war and old enough to be the father of the GIs he tends. Searching for the truth about his own son, a downed pilot missing in action, Kahn finds himself dueling with God, wading into combat without a gun, and becoming a leader among men in need of someone–anyone–to follow. The prize: the liberation of Paris, where a ruthless American traitor known as Chien Blanc–White Dog–grows fat and rich in the black market. Whatever the occupied city’s destiny, destroyed or freed, he will win. The fates of these three men will collide, hurtling toward an uncommon destiny in which people commit deeds they cannot foresee and can never truly explain. From the screams of German .88 howitzers to the last whispers of dying young soldiers, Robbins captures war in all its awful fullness. And through the eyes of his unique characters, he leaves us with a mature, brilliant, and memorable vision of humanity in the face of inhumanity itself.
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African American men
African American men -- Fiction
African Americans
Americans
Americans -- France -- Fiction
Cotentin (France) -- Fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Jewish men
Jewish men -- Fiction
Judaism
Literature
Military chaplains
Military chaplains -- Judaism -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Rabbis
Rabbis -- Fiction
Thriller
Traitors
Traitors -- Fiction
Transportation
Truck drivers
Truck drivers -- Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- Fiction
African American men -- Fiction
African Americans
Americans
Americans -- France -- Fiction
Cotentin (France) -- Fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Jewish men
Jewish men -- Fiction
Judaism
Literature
Military chaplains
Military chaplains -- Judaism -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Rabbis
Rabbis -- Fiction
Thriller
Traitors
Traitors -- Fiction
Transportation
Truck drivers
Truck drivers -- Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- Fiction
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- Fiction
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Cotentin (France) -- Fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Jewish men -- Fiction
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Military chaplains -- Judaism -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Rabbis -- Fiction
Thriller
Traitors -- Fiction
Truck drivers -- Fiction
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World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Fiction
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- Fiction
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Liberation road [electronic resource] : World war ii series, book 4. David L Robbins
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Historical Fiction
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Thriller
Traitors
Transportation
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World War, 1939-1945
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Americans
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Historical Fiction
Jewish men
Judaism
Literature
Military chaplains
Rabbis
Thriller
Traitors
Transportation
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World War, 1939-1945
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