Honor Untarnished : A West Point Graduate's Memoir of World War II

by Bennett, Donald V.; Forstchen, William R.

• ISBN13: 9780765306579
• ISBN10: 0765306573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

What the bestsellersFlags of Our Fatherswas to Iwo Jima andDutyto the mission of the Enola Gay,Honor Untarnishedis to the World War II tour of duty of young graduate of a West Point. Whether it was fighting Rommel's fierce Afrika Korps hitting the beaches of Normandy on D Day, surviving the Battle of the Bulge, or just being in the next room during the infamous "slapping incident" of Blood-n-Guts General George Patton, Donald Bennett experienced the fiery crucible of World War II and survived to tell about it. As a recent graduate of West Point, First Lieutenant Bennett was given the charge of training inexperienced and scared recruits, and leading them into battle against the Axis forces. From orientation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma through the fiercest battles of the war right up to the liberation of the death camps and our complicit confrontation with the Soviet Union over Eastern Europe, Don Bennett, not yet thirty, preserved the honor of the corps, and the liberty of the free world. Lindbergh, Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower are just names in a history book to most-but to Don Bennett they were personal acquaintances. This is the story of D Day, the Bulge, and the rest of the war. It differs from many recent books on similar events ... because Don Bennett was actually there!

Author Biography

General Donald V. Bennett (retired), a graduate and former commandant of West Point, won the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts for his service in World War II. He is retired and lives in Montreat, North Carolina, where he occasionally lectures on "the Greatest Generation."

Dr. William R. Forstchen is Professor of History at Montreat College, author of the Lost Regiment series, and We Look like Men of War and coauthor (with Newt Gingrich) of 1945 and a new Civil War alternate history.

Table of Contents

Childhood and Early Years	11	(20)
West Point	31	(34)
Fort Sill / Fort Sam Houston / Fort Knox	65	(16)
1942 Stateside	81	(18)
Casablanca	99	(16)
Tunisia	115	(20)
Sicily	135	(18)
England	153	(14)
Getting Ready	167	(26)
June 6, 1944	193	(24)
Normandy	217	(20)
Breakout and the Race Across France	237	(14)
Stalled	251	(16)
To the Ardennes	267	(16)
To the Elbe	283	(12)
The Ending	295