From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg: A Memoir of World War II Combat and the International Military Tribunal

by Daniel Altman and Fawn Zwickel

A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division.

On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476679231
• ISBN13: 9781476679235
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher