{"product_id":"the-road-to-war-steven-burgauer-9781450218825","title":"The Road to War: Duty \u0026 Drill, Courage \u0026 Capture","description":"A riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.\u003cp\u003e This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham, Jr., who - shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry, where he excelled in basic training, became a junior officer, and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on Omaha Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Six days later, in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire, Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner. He spent the next year as a German POW, where he suffered great deprivation before finally being liberated by advancing Russian forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His training, his courage, his capture. The reader is taken for a first-person tour of the times at home and then tunneled into a vastly different world on the battlefield and in a German prisoner-of-war camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A truly remarkable story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Burgauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1450218822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781450218825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven Burgauer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48444929245439,"sku":"9781450218825","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d76688f-7666-4f03-b252-39d66c5e9389.jpg?v=1777215500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-road-to-war-steven-burgauer-9781450218825","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}