The Steel Wave
by Jeff Shaara
Published by Random House
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Reviewed by Jeff Foster
So many books have been written about World War II that there are entire bookstores devoted to this single subject. I am please to announce that they will have to stock yet one more title.
In The Steel Wave Jeff Shaara, brings an accounting of D-Day that surprisingly has not been done before.
This account takes the reader for the first time, into the lives, hearts and minds of all the major players. You get a detailed perspective from the Allied side by sitting in a canvas tent with Dwight Eisenhower on June 5th, 1944 as American, British and Canadian forces are crossing the channel to strike at Hitler’s Atlantic Wall.
You are taken into the minds of Erwin Rommel, the Commander of the German Army Group tasked with defending the beaches–and his frustrating conversations with Berlin and his immediate superiors as well as unfulfilled requests for more supplies, men and weapons to halt the Allies on the beaches.
You will drop into France with a unit of the vaunted 82nd Airborne and experience their fears first hand, as the first waves of American paratroopers are thrown into the French countryside that is teeming with German defenders.
As you can expect from his previous works, Jeff Shaara has done meticulous research, had countless meetings with surviving veterans, and compiled a very thorough account of this day that changed history. This is a necessary read and a must have for any WWII aficionado.
Armchair Interviews says: Check your bookshelf and make room for 5-star read!
Author’s Web site: http://www.JeffShaara.com