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Poem

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,A England mourns for her dead across the sea.B Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,C Fallen in the cause of the free.B Solemn the drums thrill: Death August and royal,D Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.E There is music in the midst of desolationF And a glory that shines upon our tears.E They went with songs to the battle, they were young,G Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.H They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted:I They fell with their faces to the foe.H They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:J Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.K At the going down of the sun and in the morningL We will remember them.K They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;M They sit no more at familiar tables of home;N They have no lot in our labour of the day-timeO; They sleep beyond England's foam.M But where our desires are and our hopes profound,P Felt as well-spring that is hidden from sight,Q To the innermost heart of their own land they are knownR As the stars are known to the Night;Q As the starts that shall be bright when we are dust,S Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;T As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,U To the end, to the end they remain.T Laurence Binyon
 * For the Fallen**

Scheme:A,B,C,B,D,E,F,E,G,H,I,H,J,K,L,K,M,N,O,M,P,Q,R,Q,S,T,U,T

literary devices: Rhyme, alliteration. no others. [|**D-Day June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of World War II**] //Source:// Amazon //Author:// Stephen E. Ambrose Ambrose "provides a comprehensive history of the invasion which also eloquently testifies as to how common soldiers performed extraordinary feats .... The many small stories that Ambrose collected from paratroopers, sailors, infantrymen, and civilians make the excitement, confusion, and sheer terror of D-day come alive on the page." (1994) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Burford Books //Author:// Charles Reis Felix "Crossing the Sauer is a tough, vivid, honest, and tautly written memoir of advancing through Germany with Patton's Third Army." (April 2002) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?]
 * [|Crossing the Sauer: A Memoir of World War II]**
 * [|Crossing the Sauer: A Memoir of World War II]**

//Source:// Cooper Square Press //Author:// Martin Blumenson "The desert battle at Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first real confrontation between American and German troops, and the one that pitted Eisenhower's and Patton's leadership against Rommel's." (September 2000) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Presidio Press //Author:// Belton Y. Cooper, foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose "As American tanks raced across France, one fact became immediately clear: One-on-one, the Sherman tank with its 75 mm main gun was no match for the more heavily armored and heavily-gunned German tanks that it faced across the battlefield." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (September 1998) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Amazon //Author:// Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall One of the best descriptions of combat in the Pacific war. The book tells the stories of squad and platoon fights with holed-up Japanese on islands no more than 250 yards wide. There are no generals or colonels here, no high-level planning or strategy. This is the story of ground combat from the vantage point of the individual infantryman. (1983) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Presidio Press //Author:// Francis A. O'Brien "The inspiring story of Lieutenant Colonel William J. O'Brien and his battalion at Saipan." (June 2002) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Amazon //Author:// Michael Connelly "The Mortarmen is the epic and never before told story of the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion. The men of the 87th landed on Utah Beach on D-Day with their 4.2" mortars and quickly became one of the most sought after fire support units in the European Theater of Operations (ETO)." [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?]
 * [|Kasserine Pass: Rommel's Bloody, Climatic Battle for Tunisia]**
 * [|Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II]**
 * [|Island Victory : The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll]**
 * [|Battling For Saipan: The True Story of an American Hero]**
 * [|The Mortarmen]**

//Source:// Presidio Press //Author:// John C. McManus "How is it that soldiers can leave the safety, albeit dubious, of a foxhole and attack knowing that it may result in their grave injury or even death?" Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (June 1998) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Praeger Publishers //Author:// Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. "Mitcham chronicles the crushing German defeats that ensued during the final months of the war." (September 2001) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] //Source:// Amazon //Author:// Charles B. MacDonald One of the most moving and honest first-person accounts of small-unit command responsibility available. MacDonald was one of the youngest captains in the Army in 1944 when his company was hit and overrun in the first hours of the German offensive. (1978) [|Would you recommend this to other visitors?] [|Click here for more Army, Infantry Battles]
 * [|The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II]**
 * [|Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat In the East, 1944]**
 * [|Company Commander]**

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