To D-Day and Back: Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II POW: A memoir

by Bob Bearden

In the predawn hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, which would become immortalized as the Longest Day, Bob Bearden and his comrades in the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped into the inky skies over Normandy. Their defend the west bank of the Merderet River against German counterattack. After long months of training they were finally taking the war to the Germans. Beardens time in combat proved shortlived, however, when he was captured on D+2, June 8.

This was only the beginning of a new war for his very survival through multiple German POW camps and ultimately on an epic journey that would take him largely on foot all the way to Moscow on his journey home, all of which makes for exciting reading in this remarkable memoir.

Genres: War, World War II

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 2007

Reviews

[John Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Memoir. Bob's experiences give us greater appreciation of the sacrifice that our service members make to ensure the freedom of all people!

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has every aspect of what a young man went through in WWII from High School to enlisting into the NG. From Basic Training to traveling to Camp Polk to England and D-day and beyond.

It tells the fun and funny times to the shelling, fight for survival to becoming a POW and life in the Stalag.

This is not for the faint at heart because it goes into the bloody and gory details of survival and results of combat and war.

[Lj · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bob shares his adventures as a paratrooper leading up to DDay, his life as POW, and his journey back to Texas. Bob is witty, spunky and courageous, always taking risks... an amazing memoir of a true American hero.