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Spearhead - An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II (Hardcover, Main)
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Spearhead - An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II (Hardcover, Main)
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The New York Times Bestseller 'Brilliant... Gripping' Wall Street
Journal From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call
comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's
journey into the heart of the Third Reich. At first, gunner
Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored
Division - 'Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible. Then
they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot
through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: the
lead tank always gets hit. After Clarence sees his friends cut down
breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the
Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge
their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art 'super
tank', one of twenty in the European theatre. But with it comes a
harrowing new responsibility: now they will spearhead every attack.
That's how Clarence finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its
largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne,
the 'Fortress City' of Germany. Battling through the ruins,
Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by
an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a
teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has
been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans. As Clarence
and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are confronted by
a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to
the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable:
to face his enemy, one last time.
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