The Gift of Significance: An Ordinary Man's Extraordinary Story of War

By Robert DeBard

The amazing story of "Smokin' Joe" Bredeson reads like fiction, except that it's true. Kept to himself for more than 60 years, this first-person account moves well beyond his medals of war to a place of authenticity few veterans have been willing to venture with a message of sacrifice and salvation as relevant to readers today as when he lived it. From parachuting in behind enemy lines on D-Day as a member of the renowned "Screaming Eagles" to the Battle of the Bulge where, as an Army Ranger, he finally hit the wall of traumatic stress ending up in a self-described "loony bin," the reader is presented testimony to the price of freedom for this member of "The Greatest Generation." His account of heroism and heartbreak will alert your senses, the events will rivet your attention, and his ultimate triumph against all odds in post-war France will warm your heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983109738
• ISBN13: 9781983109737
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"