Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers

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Penguin, May 1, 2012 - History - 304 pages
From 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.

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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

CRAZINESS
119
ONLY SAFE UNDER THE EARTH
131
FOY
149

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Marcus Brotherton is a journalist and professional writer, known internationally for his literary collaborations with high-profile public figures, humanitarians, inspirational leaders, and military personnel. He is the author of the national bestsellers A Company of Heroes, We Who Are Alive and Remain, and the coauthor of Call of Duty with Lieutenant Lynn “Buck” Compton.

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