Hope and honor / Sidney Shachnow and Jann Robins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shachnow, Sidney.

Contributor:

Robbins, Jann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shachnow, Sidney.

United States. Army--Biography.

United States.

United States. Army.

Special forces (Military science).

History.

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Special forces (Military science)--United States--History--20th century.

United States--History, Military--20th century.

History, Military.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Forge, 2004.

Summary:

Major General Sidney Shachnow is more than a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran with two Silver and three Bronze Stars with V for Valor. He survived a crucible far crueler than the jungles of Vietnam: Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, spending three years in the notorious Kovno concentration camp as a child. At age ten, with nothing but rags on his back, he was finally able to flee that hellhole. Most of those he left behind died. After returning to his home in Lithuania, now occupied by the Soviets, and finding it unbearable, Shachnow and his family decided to head west, often on foot, across Europe to the U.S. zone in Germany, where they found refuge. To earn a living in the grim aftermath of war, he smuggled black market contraband for American GIs. His next journey was to America, where he worked his way through school and enlisted in the U.S. Army, volunteering for U.S. Special Forces, where he served for thirty-two years. His primary goal was to save others from the indignities he had endured and the deadly fate he so narrowly escaped. From Vietnam to the Middle East to the Berlin Wall, Sid Shachnow served in Special Forces. He grew as Special Forces grew, receiving both a master's and a doctoral degree. He traveled the world, rising to major general, responsible for U.S. Special Forces everywhere, but the lessons of Kovno stayed with him wherever he turned, wherever he soldiered. Hope and Honor is a powerful and dramatic memoir that shows how the will to live - so painfully refined in the fires of that long-ago death camp - was forged, at last, into truth of soul and wisdom of the heart.

Contents:

Part I Into the Fire (1941-1945) 15

Part II The Road to Freedom (1945-1955) 121

Part III The American Dream (1955-1994) 219.

Notes:

" A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN:

0765307928 :

OCLC:

56547913