David Kenyon Webster (1922-1961) was an aspiring writer who left Harvard to join the paratroops in World War II. After the war ended, he wrote about his experience as a paratrooper in Parachute Infantry. The manuscript for this book would later become source material for Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers. Webster's other works include Myth and Maneater.
David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a firsthand account of life in E ...[SEE MORE]