Tank driver: with the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day

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Tank Driver is the story of a young man's combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. He gives a riveting account of the shifting tides of battle and the final Allied breakout.;Foreword / Spencer C. Tucker -- The Army Beckons -- Basic Training at Camp Roberts -- ASTP at the University of Oregon -- Camp Cooke -- Going Abroad -- England -- Forced March across Northern France -- Entry into Battle -- The Ambush at Noville -- First and Second Drives to the Rhine -- Bloody Easter -- Bayreuth to Grafenwohr -- Release of Concentration Camp Prisoners -- The Fierce Battle for the City of Regen -- The Intensity of the Drive Continues -- Mauthausen, Gusen I, and Gusen II -- Mass Surrender and Death March -- Adjusting to Peacetime -- Waiting to Go Home -- Belgium Remembers: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge -- Belgium Revisited, May 2000: Belgian Memorial Day. Foreword / Spencer C. Tucker -- The Army Beckons -- Basic Training at Camp Roberts -- ASTP at the University of Oregon -- Camp Cooke -- Going Abroad -- England -- Forced March across Northern France -- Entry into Battle -- The Ambush at Noville -- First and Second Drives to the Rhine -- Bloody Easter -- Bayreuth to Grafenwohr -- Release of Concentration Camp Prisoners -- The Fierce Battle for the City of Regen -- The Intensity of the Drive Continues -- Mauthausen, Gusen I, and Gusen II -- Mass Surrender and Death March -- Adjusting to Peacetime -- Waiting to Go Home -- Belgium Remembers: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge -- Belgium Revisited, May 2000: Belgian Memorial Day.