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Alfred
- The Quiet History of a World War II Infantryman
- Narrated by: Louise Endres Moore
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Alfred
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Publisher's Summary
Book Excellence Awards Winner in Biography
Number one best seller in Biographies of the Army on Amazon
Eric Hoffer Award Category Finalist
IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist
We almost didn't know.
For 57 years, Alfred Endres told his family he had been a barber, chauffeur, and translator in World War II. But following the death of his wife, Alfred quietly started sharing a glimpse into his actual wartime experiences. His daughter first began capturing those fractions of stories on napkins during her weekly nursing home visits, which grew into a nearly two-decade deep dive into his true role in the war a reluctant front-line machine gunner in Europe from 1944 to 1945.
Intensely researched and thoroughly human, Alfred compiles a lifetime panorama of one infantryman who never wanted a part in the war but accepted it. He returned home, discernibly the gentle Wisconsin farmer he was when he left, to a family unknowing what he had done and what he had survived.