Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers
by Brotherton, MarcusFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-05-03
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary
A tale of heroism and adventure-a memoir about Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, a highly respected Band of Brothers soldier. When he was a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Shifty Powers's goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to "see" without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives of many of his friends. Shifty's Waris a tale of a soldier's blood-filled days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man's abilities as a sharpshooter, along with an engagingly unassuming personality, propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| General Taylor's Lottery | p. 1 |
| No Ordinary Country | p. 15 |
| The Fun and the Fear | p. 31 |
| Bulletproof | p. 41 |
| Faces Set Like Flint | p. 61 |
| The Things I Had No Words For | p. 75 |
| Orders | p. 87 |
| A Blur of Battles | p. 101 |
| Craziness | p. 119 |
| Only Safe under the Earth | p. 131 |
| Foy | p. 149 |
| Maybe We'll Actually Live | p. 161 |
| At War's End | p. 171 |
| The Difference at Home | p. 185 |
| How a Man Wrestles with War | p. 201 |
| The Band of Brothers | p. 219 |
| The Last Garden | p. 231 |
| Epilogue | p. 245 |
| Acknowledgments and Sources | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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