商品簡介
Leslie Sabo Jr. was killed on Mother's Day, protecting his Bravo Company comrades under murderous enemy fire. This is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry (Currahees), 101st Airborne Division, were involved in excruciating and bloody engagements such as the battle for Hill 474 and the Mother's Day Ambush. Beginning with their deployment at the height of the Tet Offensive, and using military records and interviews with surviving soldiers, Eric Poole recreates the terror of combat amidst the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam as Bravo Company forged bonds of brotherhood in their daily battle for survival.
作者簡介
In nearly 20 years as a reporter and columnist, Eric Poole has received more than 30 regional, statewide, and national journalism awards for subjects ranging from sports to the environment and business to politics. In 1997, he was named the top non-daily newspaper sports columnist by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. In 2008, Poole received first-place Keystone Awards from the association for general column writing and for special subject with "Act of Courage," the story upon which his first book Forgotten Honor was based.
He has interviewed some of America's most illustrious figures, including presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Pittsburgh Steelers President and US Ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney, and was part of the audience for Leslie Sabo's Medal of Honor award ceremony.
Poole is a reporter for the Ellwood City Ledger and Beaver County Times newspapers in the Calkins Media chain. Previously, he was a reporter and editor for Gateway Publications (now part of the Tribune-Review's Trib Total Media chain). The author lives in Ellwood City, PA.
