05584cam a2200853 4500 599898793 TxAuBib 20220604120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307418227 0307418227 B000XUBEPC Amazon 6ff3df66-34ee-4560-b1a4-ba633c46e01b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 351804 OverDrive (Product ID) 155482 155482 155482 TxAuBib Robbins, David L., 1954- Liberation Road [Sunflower eLibrary eBook] : World War II Series, Book 4. Random House Publishing Group, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1669kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. american historical fiction. African American soldiers. historical fiction books. african american history. books about history. historical suspense. Historical Fiction. cotentin peninsula. american history. red ball express. historical books. Military History. Military Fiction. American heroes. books about war. military books. allied forces. World War II. war fiction. World War 2. transport . Historical. war books. Thriller. Military. soldiers. suspense. battles. History. battle. heroes. Allies. France. Paris. WWII. War. ww2. HTML:With his acclaimed novels of World War II, David L. Robbins awakened a generation to the drama, tragedy, and heroism of some of history’s greatest battles. Now he delivers a gripping and authentic story set against one of our greatest wartime achievements: the Red Ball Express, six thousand trucks and twenty-three thousand men–most of them African-American–who forged a lifeline of supplies in the Allied struggle to liberate France.<br /> <br /> June 1944. The Allies deliver a staggering blow to Hitler’s Atlantic fortress, leaving the beaches and bluffs of Normandy strewn with corpses. The Germans have only one chance to stop the immense invasion–by bottling up the Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula. There, in fields crisscrossed with dense hedgerows, many will meet their death while others will search for signs of life. Among the latter are two very different men, each with his own demons to fight and his own reasons to risk his life for his fellow man.<br /> <br /> Joe Amos Biggs is an invisible “colored” driver in the Red Ball Express, the unheralded convoy of trucks that serves as a precious lifeline to the front. Delivering fuel and ammunition to men whose survival depends on the truckers, Joe Amos finds himself hungering to make his mark and propelled into battle among those who don’t see him as an equal–but will need him to be a hero.<br /> <br /> A chaplain in the demoralized 90th Infantry, Rabbi Ben Kahn is a veteran of the first great war and old enough to be the father of the GIs he tends. Searching for the truth about his own son, a downed pilot missing in action, Kahn finds himself dueling with God, wading into combat without a gun, and becoming a leader among men in need of someone–anyone–to follow.<br /> <br /> The prize: the liberation of Paris, where a ruthless American traitor known as Chien Blanc–White Dog–grows fat and rich in the black market. Whatever the occupied city’s destiny, destroyed or freed, he will win.<br /> <br /> The fates of these three men will collide, hurtling toward an uncommon destiny in which people commit deeds they cannot foresee and can never truly explain.<br /> <br /> From the screams of German .88 howitzers to the last whispers of dying young soldiers, Robbins captures war in all its awful fullness. And through the eyes of his unique characters, he leaves us with a mature, brilliant, and memorable vision of humanity in the face of inhumanity itself. Historical Fiction. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-08-03 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6FF/3DF/66/LiberationRoadANovelofWorldWarIIandth9780307418227.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6FF3DF66-34EE-4560-B1A4-BA633C46E01B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6FF/3DF/66/LiberationRoadANovelofWorldWarIIandth9780307418227.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6FF3DF66-34EE-4560-B1A4-BA633C46E01B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6FF/3DF/66/LiberationRoadANovelofWorldWarIIandth9780307418227.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6FF3DF66-34EE-4560-B1A4-BA633C46E01B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)