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If You Survive | 
 enlarge | Author: George Wilson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5708
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0804100039
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.548173
EAN: 9780804100038
ASIN: 0804100039
Publication Date: February 1, 1987
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 Gripping and Gritty June 15, 2008
Paul Newton (Newcastle, England)
I dont often take the time to review books on here, but having recently re read this book, I think it is the least that I can do. It is a truly brilliant book written by a man who spent so long in the front line that he couldn't even cope with normal food when he came off the line. Amazing story, very well told.
 A hidden gem December 10, 2007
D. Williams (Scotland)
It's nice to read a story/memoir of WWII that doesn't start with D-Day but starts just after it in the very confusing period during the Battle of Normandy.
It's also good to see someone being honest about his mistakes and triumphs, and how other's also made mistakes. Also unusual for an American to admit that his own air force bombed him, and to take Patton off his pedestal.
Brilliantly he doesn't try and tell you everyone's name and their life history, which a lot of books of this ilk try and overwhelm you with to the point when you really couldn't give a toss about any of them.
There are some great stories here, and it's well written. Importantly, George Wilson isn't try to fool anyone that he's the best soldier ever, just a guy trying to keep himself and his squad alive.
Restrained and thoughtful March 29, 2007
Blackheart (Cheltenham-UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
George Wilson is (Or was) no great stylist as a writer, and tries to neither impress nor manipulate the reader- his book is all the better for it. What he obviously was, was a modest, brave, and decent man, the kind of citizen soldier of which a nation should be proud. His book covers a period from D-Day to the end of the war, as an infantry lieutenant and sometime acting company commander. He fought through the Hurtgen Forest in a formation completely destroyed by losses and then rebuilt, fighting as brutal and unforgiving as any on the Western Front. He is thoughtful and humane on failures in training and equipment in his own army, and failures of personnel, and his work would serve as a useful training primer for comapny level infantry actions even today. This book is a fine antidote to gung-ho memoirs, or even to higher level histories which serve patriotic agendas. Read it and be grateful.
 A personal account March 13, 2007
Tommy Ormseth (Norway)
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
Having read numbers of German first hand accounts from the Eastern Front, I found George Wilsons book throughly boring. Compared to the horrors on the German-Russian Front, Wilsons story is completely tame. It was probably bad enough for the Americans who fought in the war, but Wilsons story lacks the extreme horrors of war readers of this type of books is seeking.
The American numerical superiority in men, armour and artillery - not to mention their complete air superiority - was breathtaking, and the absence of dayly bloody hand to hand combat was the result. George Wilsons story is genuine, but the reader will not find himself shivering and lost in the story.
Not to Bad at all November 14, 2006
A. Cresswell (london, UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Another one of those 'good' and readable accounts of warfare during WW2. I'd put this in the same class as The forgotten Soldier (although that was a 5 star for me and not a 4 star) and Sniper on the eastern Front by Sepp Allerberger.
Discriptive, and thoughtful but bound up in a 'story' format.
Nice Job.
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