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THE STEEL WAVE is the second volume in New York Times-bestselling author Jeff Shaara's acclaimed World War II trilogy, about the most famous chapter in WWII--D Day. Jeff Shaara plunges his readers into the minds of the commanders who gave the orders, and the soldiers who carried them out with the rifle and bayonet. Omar Bradley, the stoic and thoughtful American general, is responsible for the lives of every American soldier in the extraordinary operation. George Patton, the war's most outspoken and controversial figure, chafed noisily in England, impatiently waiting while others did the fighting. He served first as a simple decoy with a phantom army at his command, a brilliant deception to convince the Germans that Patton will in fact lead an invasion elsewhere. Once the Allied foothold is secure, Patton is finally turned loose, and energizes the historic breakout that drives the Germans in
a chaotic retreat across France. Above it all is Dwight Eisenhower, "Ike",
whose overall strategies and command decisions unite the American and British forces into an unstoppable fighting machine.
On the mainland, the German defenses along Hitler's Atlantic Wall are
commanded by a familiar adversary, Erwin Rommel, one of the 20th century's finest combat soldiers, and the primary German voice from Shaara's previous volume The Rising Tide. Faced with the task of tossing the Allied invaders back into the sea, Rommel must confront not only the enemy on the beaches, but the enemies in his own high command, including the increasingly deranged rantings of Adolf Hitler.
Also returning from Jeff Shaara's previous saga is Sgt. Jesse Adams, a
no-nonsense veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, who parachutes with his men behind German lines, and finds that nothing is as the Americans expected. Another grunt, Private Tom Thorne of the 29th Infantry Division, faces the horrifying prospects of fighting his way ashore on a stretch of deadly sand where the Germans are waiting with far more firepower and strength than any Allied commander has predicted-- a place known forever as Omaha Beach.
Familiar names emerge too, each with a distinctive voice: Churchill,
Marshall, Montgomery, Hitler, and more. From GI to general, this centerpiece of Jeff Shaara's saga on the Second World War carries the reader through the events of the most crucial weeks of the Second World War-- events that altered the flow of the war, and ultimately, changed history.
About the Author:
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure--two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels. Jeff was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. Visit the author online at www.JeffShaara.com.
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