Dachau 29 April 1945: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780896729605)

Seventy years ago, on April 29, 1945, the forward battalions of Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. Confident and optimistic, they had survived four months of costly and bitter combat, and soon, it would all be over. But then the road led to Dachau and the worst day of the war. In their collected memoirs, the Rainbow soldiers, almost half of whom were only eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years old, tell how they were confronted suddenly--without preparation, without warning--by horrors beyond human imagination. This book is by and about the American liberators, who have since discovered that no one who was involved in any capacity can ever be truly free of the past that was Dachau. In the most complete eyewitness account ever 04 Activeable, editor Sam Dann, himself a Rainbow soldier, weaves their stories together with official reports, other documents, and the reminiscences of several survivors.

Author: Sam Dann
ISBN-10: 0896729605
ISBN-13: 9780896729605
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 8.30w x 0.80d

About the Author
Sam Dann had a long career as a writer for radio, stage, and television, and taught visual and dramatic writing as an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He was also the author of two novels, "Goodbye, Karl Erich" and "The Third Body."