April 17, 2016: Roger Boas / Battle Rattle
Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II
This week on Veterans Radio, we look back at World War II through the eyes of 94-year-old WWII veteran Roger Boas.
“The war has changed me in ways that will take the better part of my life to understand, let alone make peace with,” begins Roger Boas in his thoughtful, compelling account of World War II. As part of the Fourth Armored Division, he found himself at the spearhead of the Allied thrust into Europe. His memoir, Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II, recreates both the tension of the battlefield and the camaraderie behind the front line. It also relates his harrowing experience as a Jew of being one of the first American soldiers to discover a Nazi concentration camp. Boas reveals the powerful impact of war on those who fight it.
