{"product_id":"the-road-to-war-duty-drill-courage-capture-9781450218801","title":"The Road to War: Duty \u0026 Drill, Courage \u0026 Capture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steven Burgauer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham, Jr., who - shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry, where he excelled in basic training, became a junior officer, and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on Omaha Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Six days later, in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire, Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner. He spent the next year as a German POW, where he suffered great deprivation before finally being liberated by advancing Russian forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His training, his courage, his capture. The reader is taken for a first-person tour of the times at home and then tunneled into a vastly different world on the battlefield and in a German prisoner-of-war camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A truly remarkable story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45164349948055,"sku":"9781450218801","price":1754.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781450218801.webp?v=1767306671","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-road-to-war-duty-drill-courage-capture-9781450218801","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}