Status Updates From Fierce Valor: The True Stor...

I forgot what a good book this is and how much I love military history!

"I stopped at the first platoon, which was at the head of the column, behind company headquarters, and stared at them dumbfounded. there are only eleven men; a platoon should have forty. I counted them again to make sure, but there were still eleven. I felt like crying.”

"we all know war stories seem to have a life of their own. they have a way of growing, of being embellished. whether the details are precise or not, there must be a kernel of truth for such a story to ever have been told the first time.”

"he worked hard to earn a reputation as a killer and he often killed for shock value. what he did in normandy was unbelievable, inexcusable. in today's army, speirs would have been court-martialed and charged with atrocities, but we desperately needed bodies, officers who led by example and were not afraid to engage the enemy. speirs fit the bill."

I knew he was a crazy mf!!!

"Technically, the second group of Germans he shot, although unarmed, were not yet prisoners. Speirs had simply not allowed them to surrender.”

dudeeee

the things they did to doyle. holy fucking shit

speirs is bad at math just like me 💕