Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in WWII has arrived and folks are already reading it. You can go the publisher’s website, https://schifferbooks.com/products/dying-hard or go to Amazon.
342 pages; 10 maps of Company B during the war, emphasis on 1944-45. 16 pages photos, including composites showing 45 soldiers in the company. Many others are combat photos, many never in print before. Book is everything I hoped for. I think you’ll love it.
But why should you actually READ it?
Because it puts YOU in Company B. You’ll think you were there. North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Hürtgen Forest, Merode Castle, Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge, and a little hellhole called Stalag VI G.
Secondly, you will fit right in with us in Company B. How do we know?
When something in life knocks you down, you get back up, wipe the blood off your nose, and say: “Is that all you’ve got?” you’re in Company B. If people told you that you were too small, too slow, too poor, or too anything, and you proved them all wrong, you’re in Company B.
Love dogs? In 1942, a young soldier found a stray dog in the Aleutian Islands and took care of him. Two years later, he put Buff in his duffel bag, climbed aboard a troopship with Buff in a duffel bag and sailed to Europe and Company B, where Buff was our mascot and pulled guard duty. So if you love dogs, you’re in Company B too.
Rise and shine, grab your helmet, and make sure your M1 Rifle is loaded. Because we’re all going back to the line.