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Etched in Purple: One Soldier's War in Europe

5 reviews
Frank Irgang

Potomac Books Inc., 2008

The Best WWII Infantryman Memoir ever Written, Bar None
Suppose that one of the men in the Band of Brothers had also been a top-caliber writer with a keen eye for detail, and a man who wasn't afraid to tell his story without glossing over the grey moral and ethical middle areas all men face in combat, and you will only begin to understand the greatness of this book. As a WWII writer, I've read literally hundreds of memoirs, but none hit me so ...

The Wyandotte

1 review
Frank J. Irgang

Winston-Derek Publishers, 1997

"Excellent story of Chief Pontiac's bloody uprising"
"An historical adventure set in colonial America. The two primary characters progress through a sequence of events involving real people and historical facts. This creates a vivid portrayal of life, sometimes quiet and serene, sometimes violent and deadly, on the expanding frontier. Richard came to the New World as a boy when his blacksmith father fled England to keep his family from being ...

Etched in purple

1 review
Frank Jacob Irgang

Caxton Printers, 1949

The BEST book about the Infantry in Europe in WWII
As a historian, I have read hundreds of books on World War II, and 'Etched in Purple' is the best of the lot. How this book has never become a movie or a best-seller is totally beyond me. Frank Irgang, the author, lived it as a young medic, and later as a sharpshooter, who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and fought all the way to Germany. This book pulls no punches. It is brutal in ...

Beneath the Snows of Stalingrad

7 reviews
Frank Irgang

Dorrance Pub Co, 2002

US Combat Infantryman Writes from German Perspective
Having read both of Frank Irgang's previous books, I was eager to read his latest release, called "Beneath the Snows of Stalingrad". Irgang landed on D-Day and fought his way across Europe and into Germany. In the process, he saw some of the worst fighting of the European war. He told the story brilliantly in his first-hand account "Etched in Purple", which to my mind is the best WWII novel I ...