![]() Their meeting in 2013 at a Cologne hotel bar is cinematic. Available Ready for despatch or collection within 5 - 7. Turns out, Gustav, the only surviving German tanker from that day, had been haunted, too. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World by Adam Makos. Smoyer had been haunted by their deaths all his life. ![]() The seminal battle of Smoyer’s service took place on the streets of Cologne where he faced off with an enemy tank, and two civilians trying to flee were killed. The hot engine hissed, then went silent.”Īnd some of the strongest storytelling comes near the end when Smoyer, now well into his 80s, meets his German counterpart. American forces were hoping to capture Cologne from the Germans, said Adam Makos, author of 'Spearhead,' a book that tells the story of both Smoyer's crew and that of the German tank crew. That said, Makos’ writing remains strong and dramatic with passages like “The bark of German tank guns knifed the woods” and “As if the Germans had been listening, they suddenly cut their power. ![]() For a World War II aficionado, it will read like a dream, but to the average reader, it gets to be a bit tedious. In his third book, though, rather than speeding through the narrative’s twists and turns with nary a bump in the road, Makos regales readers with every detail of every firefight. Army’s 3rd Armored Division’s Easy Company across the battlefields of Germany in 1944.
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