Line of Fire
By Jack Bell and Lt.-Gen. James M. Gavin
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Originally published in 1948, this is the fascinating account of U.S. soldiers fighting in East Asia and Europe, as seen firsthand by an American journalist, Jack Bell of the Chicago Daily News.
“Jack Bell spent his time with the fighting men, usually where the fighting was the thickest. He knew the troops and lived with them. He was the kind of a correspondent who would patrol the frontal areas, get voluminous motes, go back to his typewriter and write enough stuff to fill his requirements for a week, then go out again for another basketful of names and hometowns.
“He saw and knew the war as it really was—the machine gunner sweating out the next attack; the advancing BAR man clinging closely to a stone wall; the lonely man on an outpost listening with every pore of his body; the exhilaration and excitement of intense firing and fighting and the depressing feeling that came with surveying the killed and wounded in the silence that followed. He knew all of it and much more. He knew the people that fought it, their fear, their worries, and their moments of greatness. And this, finally, is the essence of war. For it is a composite of men, gun crews, air crews, seamen, and thousands of small fighting teams, all of whom regardless of their origins and fears do their jobs when the chips are down. It is these things rather than broad arrows on bright maps with thumb smudged evidences of staff cerebrations that is war. And this was Jack Bell’s war.”—James M. Gavin
Jack Bell
Jack Bell was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1968 and moved to Garden Grove, CA in 1972. While attending Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA he discovered writers like Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and William Blake. His passions include playing guitar and writing songs, short stories, and poetry. This is Jack’s second book and first published work of short stories. In this book you will read a wide variety of fictional stories on a number of different subjects.
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