Shifty's war : the authorized biography of sergeant darrell "shifty" powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the band of brothers
(2020)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2020
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 42 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781705248898 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13376401, 1705248896 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13376401
LANGUAGE
English
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Narrated by Graham Halstead

From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. As a boy, Darrell "Shifty" Powers's goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to "see" without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives of his fellow paratroopers. As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy; eighty days in Holland; thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne; and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. Shifty's War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier's blood-filled days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man's skills as a sharpshooter propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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