Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of BrothersFrom D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! As a boy, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to “see” without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life—and the lives of his fellow paratroopers. As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy; eighty days in Holland; thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne; and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. Shifty’s War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier’s blood-filled days fighting his way fromthe shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man’s skills as a sharpshooter and engagingly unassuming personality propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined. |
Contents
GENERAL TAYLORS LOTTERY | 1 |
NO ORDINARY COUNTRY | 15 |
THE FUN AND THE FEAR | 31 |
BULLETPROOF | 41 |
FACES SET LIKE FLINT | 61 |
THE THINGS I HAD NO WORDS FOR | 75 |
ORDERS | 87 |
A BLUR OF BATTLES | 101 |
MAYBE WELL ACTUALLY LIVE | 161 |
AT WARS END | 171 |
THE DIFFERENCE AT HOME | 185 |
HOW A MAN WRESTLES WITH WAR | 201 |
THE BAND OF BROTHERS | 219 |
THE LAST GARDEN | 231 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Acknowledgments and Sources | 257 |
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Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers ... Marcus Brotherton No preview available - 2012 |
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