A Soldier's Story

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The memoirs of Omar Bradley 'The GI General', who surrounded by a sea of prima donnas during World War II, never stopped quietly learing his trade until he became, during the conquest of Germany in 1945, aguable the most progressive and important senior American commander in the European theater.

Omar N. Bradley was born in Clark, Missouri, on February 12, 1893. He was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and only the fourth American to rise to the rank of five-star general. He died on April 8, 1981, and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. Caleb Carr is the bestselling author of the novels The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, as well as a critically acclaimed biography of an American mercenary, The Devil Soldier. He writes frequently on military history for The New York Times and MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, where he is a contributing editor.

"Superb history and literature...surpassed only by the magnificent volumes of Winston Churchill." -- The Saturday Review "A Soldier's Story tells, better than any other book of its kind to date, how the war in the European theater was fought and why it was fought that way." --A. J. Liebling, The New Yorker