![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a story about a two- or three-year-old Vietnamese girl whose murder haunts the narrator. It is one of 2012's most acclaimed works of World War II history.Ī literary novel written in the Modernist tradition that explores the full range of the human condition, everything from the ultimate altruism (guys charging machine gun nests to save their buddies) to the ultimate evil ( guys killing innocents because they enjoy it). The Liberator was written with significant contributions from the Center For The Study Of War Experience's extensive interviews with Sparks. The book details his unit's 4 amphibious landings, brutal combat at Anzio and in the Vosges Mountains, and the liberation of Dachau, where Sparks' men were the first to reach the death camp, secured it and prevented reprisals against German POWs. The story of Felix Sparks, one of America's most decorated combat infantry commanders, Sparks led soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th "Thunderbird" Division from the Invasion of Sicily through the end of the war in Europe. ![]()
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