  Bidwell Moore, author of Steel Shards during WWII Bidwell Moore's book successfully removes cloaks of half-truths and propaganda created by politicians to cover up their selfish motives from posterity. This book goes on to estabblish that people from different cultures can work out mutual differences and live together in peace and friendship. Drawing on his personal experiences as a soldier Bidwell Moore has successfully recreated the period of the 1940s. The setting, characters, and plot make this book a truly engrossing read. BookWire Review July 13,2005 | Steel Shards Bidwell Moore's book Steel Shards was released in May of 2001 and revised in 2002. Steel Shards is a true masterpiece that easily whisks the reader back in time to W.W.II. Stripped of propaganda, the conduct and character of the Americans, British, French, and Germans are depicted with searchlight clarity through the eyes of Captain Kimbro Sawyer, CO of an anti-tank company. In over 600 action-packed pages the reader plays touch football with Merle Oberon the Hollywood actress, dances with Lady Nadine Denis, employs anti-tank guns against German pillboxes, joins Bull Rainey in the futile assault on Faid Pass, marches with the doomed assault panzers of Sawyer's German cousin Oberleutnant Gerhard Krieger and fences with one of Germany's clever spies, Hugo Brukner. Later comes hand-to-hand combat with the elite Bersaglieri, the assault on Omaha Beach and the Bulge's seventy-five -mile-deep German salient.Shockingly, many readers will learn that our first shooting enemy in Europe was the Vichy French (which meant the French government and its numerous forces in French North Africa) At the time that Americans were relishing the anti-Nazi antics of the movie Casablanca, the reality was a US colonel carrying a white flag being blown out of his jeep (and killed) by French machine gun fire (French Morocco) or the bloody fighting at Oran. Not until it was over did the French prove to be valuable allies. |
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