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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1501179373
ISBN-13
9781501179372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038424629
Product Key Features
Book Title
Four Hours of Fury : The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, Military / Persian Gulf War (1991)
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-002135
Reviews
" Four Hours of Fury is an engrossing account of the airborne invasion that was pivotal to routing Nazi Germany, told with a master's attention to detail and historical accuracy. James M. Fenelon emerges as a talented storyteller, anchoring this narrative of a grand military offensive with rich portraits of those whose sacrifices made it successful." --Gregory A. Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500 and The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys, "Tells the forgotten story of this airborne operation...[James Fenelon] does an excellent job in interweaving personal histories and recollections with unit histories and after-action reports to give a good sense of the heavy fighting that occurred around the drop and landing zones." -- New York Journal of Books, "Gripping and well-written... Fenelon provides both the American and German perspectives of the fight, deftly weaving operational history with vivid personal accounts of the paratroopers who so bravely floated down to earth, where the hell of war greeted them." --Robert M. Edsel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men, "Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority....A riveting read." --Donald L. Miller, author of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, "Diving into Four Hours of Fury is like opening the jump door on a C-46 transport high over Germany in March of 1945.... The book is a gripping reminder that the crash of war is at its most deafening before the end." --Adam Makos, author of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II, "James Fenelon compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority. Four Hours of Fury is a riveting read and adds immensely to our understanding of the war's largest airdrop." --Donald L. Miller, John Henry McCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College, host of the PBS series "A Biography of America," and author of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, "James Fenelon puts you in a transport plane, straps a parachute to your back, and sends you into an adventure commencing 1,000 feet over Nazi German skies. Four Hours of Fury is a brilliant tribute to the last great parachute assault, and the men who invaded Hitler's empire from the air." --Jonathan W. Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of Brothers Rivals Victors, "Details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division's role in Operation Varsity . . . inspired." -- Wall Street Journal, "Examines Operation Varsity, a little-known but massive operation near the end of WWII...Testimony from surviving veterans provides gripping detail." -- Publishers Weekly, "A riveting chronicle of personal courage, overwhelming logistics, and inevitable mayhem that is as authentic as it gets." --Walter R. Borneman, author of Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona, "Deeply impactful... As you experience this four-hour descent into chaos, you'll feel like your own boots are hitting the ground." --A.J. Baime, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, "[James Fenelon] does an excellent job in interweaving personal histories and recollections with unit histories and after-action reports to give a good sense of the heavy fighting that occurred around the drop and landing zones." -- New York Journal of Books, "Hook up your static line and get ready to jump into hell. James Fenelon, a former Army paratrooper well-aware of what it takes to drop into the middle of a war, delivers a riveting chronicle of personal courage, overwhelming logistics, and inevitable mayhem that is as authentic as it gets. 'The ambition, scope and execution of Operation Varsity remains unparalleled in the annals of warfare,' he writes. The same can be said of Fenelon's telling of the largest single-day airborne assault of World War II." --Walter R. Borneman, author of Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona, " Depicts as few books ever have the complex levels of planning that are a precursor to a major invasion...Above all, [it] showcases the speed, noise, and permanence of horrifying, front-line combat." --Robert O'Neill, former SEAL Team operator and New York Times bestselling author of The Operator, "Exceptional...[Fenelon] examines all of the battle's various aspects: from Allied and German high command strategy conferences, to the logistics of dropping tens of thousands of soldiers behind enemy lines, to the experiences of the paratroopers and glider soldiers in the air and on the ground.... An extraordinary story well told." --Peter R. Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945, "Fenelon has fashioned a mirror of hell... Four Hours of Fury helps us see deeply into this little known but critical fight to the death." --Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump , The Aviators , and The Generals, "I was hooked . . . . The give-and-take dialogue and the physical interchange between the members of the unit are authentic. It is how it was! . . . If you 'were there and did that' you'll relive it. If you're just a reader and not reliving your own experiences in battle, some of what you read will be hard to believe--but that is the way it was!" --Col. William E. Weber, USA-Ret, Airborne Quarterly Magazine, "Four Hours of Fury depicts as few books ever have the complex levels of planning that are a precursor to a major invasion, but it also shines a light on the seldom-viewed human element: lull moments that often drift into comedy, and, once the action starts, the struggle to bury fear as death draws closer. Above all, the book showcases the speed, noise, and permanence of horrifying, front-line combat. In the end, the reader is left with this: the perfect plan rarely works; it is for each other that men fight; and facing annihilation releases emotions that never entirely disappear. It is a weight that is carried for a lifetime." --Robert O'Neill, former SEAL Team operator and New York Times bestselling author of The Operator, "Epic... Four Hours of Fury is a fine tribute to the gallantry of the men and women who, against overwhelming odds, vanquished a great evil." --Craig Nelson, New York Times bestselling author of Pearl Harbor , Rocket Men , and The First Heroes, "James Fenelon's epic account of the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany recreates in stirring detail both the generals' strategies and the privates' emotions as their colossal effort climaxed in momentous achievement. Four Hours of Fury is a fine tribute to the gallantry of the men and women who, against overwhelming odds, vanquished a great evil." --Craig Nelson, author of Pearl Harbor , Rocket Men , and The First Heroes, "A brilliant tribute to the last great parachute assault, and the men who invaded Hitler's empire from the air." --Jonathan W. Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of Brothers Rivals Victors, "Fenelon brings his personal experience as a paratrooper to bear in analyzing airborne operations in the 20th century's greatest conflict....A riveting account of an airborne division at war." -- Army Times
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
940.54/213553
Synopsis
In this viscerally exciting account, a paratrooper-turned-historian reveals the details of World War II's largest airborne operation--one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war's largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany's last line of defense and gutted Hitler's war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory--the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history's footnotes. Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air , Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II's most under-chronicled and dangerous operations., "Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air ) about World War II's largest airborne operation--one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war's largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany's last line of defense and gutted Hitler's war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory--the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history's footnotes. In this viscerally exciting account, paratrooper-turned-historian James Fenelon "details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division's role in Operation Varsity...inspired" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air , Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II's most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.
LC Classification Number
D757.F46 2019
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