Lens of an Infantryman: A World War II Memoir with Photographs from a Hidden Camera

by Murray Leff

Overview

After he arrived in Europe with the 35th Infantry Division, Murray Leff traded his cigarette ration for a 35mm camera. By hiding that camera under his field jacket, Leff was able to carry it into battle to record some of the war's most heated fighting. Photographs snapped while he crouched in a water-filled ditch show Leff's rifle squad burying their heads in mud as enemy shells come in. Images show a supporting tank on its arrival and later, smoldering from a direct hit by German fire. These and many more photographs are part of this memoir, which records Leff's World War II experiences from Gremercey Forest through the Battle of the Bulge, the Ruhr Pocket and the fall of Germany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786428670
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/17/2007
Pages:	207
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Owner of an advertising agency, Murray Leff lives in Staten Island, New York.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Introduction     

1. My Trip to the 35th     
2. Gremercey Forest     
3. November 8, 1944     
4. Across Lorraine     
5. Into Germany     
6. The Battle of the Bulge     
7. Alsace, Holland and Germany     
8. Co. E Takes Ossenberg     
9. Across the Rhine     
10. The Ruhr Pocket     
11. The Final Days     

Postscript     
Appendix I     
Appendix II     
Index