![]() ![]() The author chose to write in Shifty's voice, keeping his local colloquialisms and fill-in words, to give readers the sense that Shifty is telling his own story. Although he had spoken several times with Shifty on the phone, the two had never met face-to-face. Author Marcus Brotherton offers fans a unique biography of Shifty, and, perhaps the first posthumous account of an Easy Company Toccoa veteran.īrotherton's biography of Shifty is unique for a few reasons. His sharpshooting skills and uncanny ability to memorize rugged terrain, and spot a bush that was not present the day before was highlighted in the HBO mini-series. As a boy, the soft-spoken homespun Appalachian from Clinchco, Virginia was more at home in the woods hunting rabbits, than most of us are on our living room couches watching TV. Darrell "Shifty" Powers needs no introduction. Shifty's War is a tale of heroism and adventure, 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 skills as a sharpshooter propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined.įor Band of Brothers fans world-wide, Sgt. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy eighty days in Holland thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives of his fellow paratroopers. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to see without his eyes. As a boy, Darrell Shifty Powers's goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. ![]() Ga naar onze Privacyverklaring voor meer informatie over hoe en voor welke doeleinden Amazon persoonsgegevens gebruikt (zoals de bestelgeschiedenis van Amazon Store).įrom D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. Derde partijen gebruiken cookies om persoonlijke advertenties weer te geven en te meten, doelgroepinzichten te genereren en producten te ontwikkelen en te verbeteren. Dit omvat het gebruik van cookies van eerste en derde partijen die standaard apparaatgegevens, zoals een unieke ID, opslaan of openen. We gebruiken deze cookies ook om te begrijpen hoe klanten onze diensten gebruiken (bijvoorbeeld door websitebezoeken te meten), zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen.Īls je ermee akkoord gaat, gebruiken we ook cookies om je winkelervaring in de Amazon Stores te verbeteren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring.
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