Leon C Standifer: 2 books
Not in Vain
A Rifleman Remembers World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to college...
Binding Up the Wounds
An American Soldier in Occupied Germany, 1945--1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In his highly acclaimed Not in Vain, Leon C. Standifer recounted his experiences as a small-town Mississippi boy who at age nineteen found himself fighting as a combat infantryman in World War II France and Germany. Binding Up the Wounds carries the story beyond V-E Day to describe what the author...