Tank Driver - by J Ted Hartman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This is a vivid, personal account of some of the most dramatic fighting of World War II.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Tank Driver</i> is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hartman gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout. He tells about the concentration camps, the spectacle of the defeated Germans, and the dramatic encounter with Russian soldiers in Austria that marked combat's end. This is a vivid, personal account of some of the most dramatic fighting of World War II.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[A] well-balanced, often moving look at one man's war and every man's war.</p>-- "World War II"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>J. Ted Hartman was 19 years old when he got behind the controls of a tank and drove it into battle. After receiving a discharge from the army, he took a medical degree and became an orthopedic surgeon. He was founding chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University, from which he is now retired.</p>
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