Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II / Adam Makos.

• Introduction -- The gentle giant -- Baptism -- "Bubi" -- The fields -- The foray -- Beyond the wall -- Respite -- The fourth trank -- Hope -- Something bigger -- America's Tiger -- Two miles -- Hunting -- The fire department of the West -- Going first -- Victory or Siberia -- The monster -- The conquerors -- The breakout -- The American Blitz -- The fatherless -- Family -- Come out and fight -- The giant -- Getting home -- The last battle -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Notes -- Photo credits -- Index.

• Spearhead honours an unsung hero of World War II, Clarence Smoyers, who deplored violence but became the gunner of one of the first Pershing tanks in the European Theatre, spearheading the American invasion of Germany. Smoyers's story is a powerful evocation of the lives and challenges of the 'tankers', so critical to the war effort, as well as of German civilians caught up in the conflict. Nearly seventy years later, Smoyer and Buck Marsh, his armoured infantry comrade, return to meet the German Panther gunner, Gustav Schaefer, they had defeated at the Battle of Cologne - healing the wounds of World War II. 

Ämnesord

World War, 1939-1945  -- Tank warfare. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Campaigns -- Western Front. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Personal narratives, American. (LCSH)

Military campaigns.  (fast)

Tank warfare.  (fast)

Västfronten (Andra världskriget 1939-1945)  (sao)

Western Front (World War (1939-1945))  (fast)

1939-1945  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personal narratives  -- American. (fast)

Personnamn

Smoyer, Clarence, 1923-

Institutionsnamn

United States. Army. Armored Division, 3rd.

United States. Army. Armored Division, 3rd.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

D769.3053 3rd (LCC)

940.5412 (DDC)

Lz Smoyer, Clarence (kssb/8)