Larry Alexander, Author . NAL $24.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-451-21510-9
The commander of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was the subject of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers
, the HBO miniseries made from it, and now this biography from a Pennsylvania journalist. Much of the book covers the same...
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A Higher Call:
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Adam Makos, with Larry Alexander. Berkley Caliber, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-425-25286-4
Military historian and aviation enthusiast Makos, along with WWII biographer Alexander (In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers), delivers a top-notch narrative of the unlikely encounter between one of Germany’s leading fighter aces, Franz Stigler,
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Larry Alexander. Blackstone, $27.99 (350p) ISBN 979-8-200-81600-2
WWII historian Alexander (A Higher Call) makes his fiction debut with a rote take on the invasion of Tarawa Atoll. Pvt. Pete “Hardball” Talbot, three months out of basic training, hits the beach with his Marine unit and immediately comes under fire.
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Larry Alexander. Blackstone, $26.99 (440p) ISBN 979-8-200-81604-0
Alexander’s dutiful sequel to 76 Hours finds U.S. Marine Pete “Hardball” Talbot taking part in the invasion of Saipan, one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific theater of WWII. It’s June 1944 and Pete, back in action after being wounded at Tarawa
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