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Roll Me Over: An Infantryman's World War II (Presidio War Classic. World War II) Mass Market Paperback – May 28, 1997

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When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the invasion. Sobered by that sight, Gantter and his fellow infantrymen moved across northern France and Belgium, taking part in the historic and bloody Battle of the Bulge, before slowly penetrating into and across Germany, fighting all the way to the Czechoslovakian border.

With depth, clarity, and remarkable compassion, Gantter--an enlisted man and college graduate who spoke German--portrays the extraordinary life of the American soldier as he and his comrades lived it while helping to destroy Hitler's Third Reich. From dueling with unseen snipers in ruined villages to fierce battles in which the lightly armed American infantry skirmished against Hitler's panzers, Gantter skillfully captures one infantryman's progress across a continent where guns, fear, and death lay in wait around every bend in the road.

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When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the invasion. Sobered by that sight, Gantter and his fellow infantrymen moved across northern France and Belgium, taking part in the historic and bloody Battle of the Bulge, before slowly penetrating into and across Germany, fighting all the way to the Czechoslovakian border.

With depth, clarity, and remarkable compassion, Gantter--an enlisted man and college graduate who spoke German--portrays the extraordinary life of the American soldier as he and his comrades lived it while helping to destroy Hitler's Third Reich. From dueling with unseen snipers in ruined villages to fierce battles in which the lightly armed American infantry skirmished against Hitler's panzers, Gantter skillfully captures one infantryman's progress across a continent where guns, fear, and death lay in wait around every bend in the road.

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When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the invasion. Sobered by that sight, Gantter and his fellow infantrymen moved across northern France and Belgium, taking part in the historic and bloody Battle of the Bulge before slowly penetrating into and across Germany, fighting all the way to the Czechoslovakian border.

With depth, clarity, and remarkable compassion, Gantter -- an enlisted man and college graduate who spoke German -- portrays the extraordinary life of the American soldier as he and his comrades lived it while helping to destroy Hitler's Third Reich. From dueling with unseen snipers in ruined villages to fierce battles in which the lightly armed American infantry skirmished against Hitler's panzers, Gantter skillfully captures one infantryman's progress across a continent where guns, fear, and death lay in wait around every bend in the road.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Presidio Press; 2nd Printing edition (May 28, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804116059
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804116053
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.9 inches

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Not sure what to say

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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I have read around 50 + WWII memoirs and I'm not really sure what to say. The book starts out pretty dry. Pretty much 100 pages of straight complaining about being there. We get the author was there against his will and leaving family or kids, but he wasn't the only one. Many understood what needed to be done and wanted to be with the best of guys so they volunteered. The author apparently feels his situation was worse than all the other fellows enough to constantly complain for 100 pages. I thought about putting the book down but wanted to give a fair review. He talks bad about fellow who complain all the time yet he's constantly complaining. Then the complaining about Americans killing Germans specifically SS. I would give him the doubt that he didn't know any better of what they had done voluntarily but he wrote this some time after the war ended and trials of Nuremberg. He obviously didn't get too much time on the frontline in combat other than patrols, if he did he only focuses 200 of the pages on mud and being cold, which we get anyone in the battle of the bulge digging foxholes suffered. More worse than him. He tends to not understand that Japanese hardly ever took prisoners nor tried to surrender and would wait for medics and others to show up and try to go out with their Bushido code of honor killing Marines not in the heat of battle. The SS voluntarily carried out Hitlers plans, regardless of what he thought they KNEW and obliged by not being transferred to the crimes committed. As I would say if he didn't stop the torture and killing he enabled it, instead of scoffing and leaving there. Anyways the authors tone disgusts me. There's no glory in war but there is pride in what you stand for. I'll leave with this, if I hadn't have read this it wouldn't have affected me in any way.

I will say the author did change a little towards the later 3/4 of the book and did capture my attention. I would give it 3/5 stars because the book was good detail, the complaining and constant woe is me. Ruined it from being a 5/5 for me anyways. He did thought at the end seem to finally come to grips with the Germans and why he was there and function as a combat soldier should.

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Quite possibly the best WWII memoir I have ever read...

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2011

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This is quite simply one of the best World War II memoirs I have ever read. Period. From the fleeting glimpses of the mundane soldier life to the harrowing moments of combat, Roll Me Over gives the best snapshot of what it was like to be a soldier in the European Theater of Operation.

Right from the beginning you are transfixed by Gantter's ability to take a snapshot of something and describe it in such detail so that you feel as though you are there with him. His writing is impeccable and drew me in immediately. I was disheartened for a little while when I found the first 140 pages didn't talk about any combat at all. What kind of WWII memoir doesn't write about the combat? Yes, the descriptions of the day to day life of a soldier - what it's like to dig a foxhole in the freezing cold, how soldier's slept, how they ate, the grizzly tokens of war - are amazing, but I want combat. Gantter went through the whole of The Battle of the Bulge and didn't write about any combat, even though he writes about how other people in his platoon were being decorated for their efforts. Strange.

Shortly thereafter the tone of the memoir went from the slow day to day life to the action packed life of a combat soldier. Entering villages with snipers taking potshots at you, slipping across a river/stream to take a town only to find that this was where the Germans were amassing their troops for a massive new offensive, watching scared as enemy tanks roll through the village you were just attacking. A major point in his memoir was when he describes a massive mortar dump on the village he was attacking to fend off the Germans and how he hid, ducked and cowered amidst the massive bombardment. Or sometimes walked around looking for food while it went on outside. I particularly like his descriptions of what he and his men did whilst pinned down in a building or village, how they foraged for food and trinkets to while away the time.

When all is said and done this is easily one of the best, if not the best, of the WWII memoirs I have ever read. The only other one that is on the same playing field so far is Sledge's With the Old Breed, but these are hard to compare as one is of the army in Europe and the other is of the marines in the Pacific. Too bad Gantter has never written anything else as he is such a great writer. A most certain recommend.

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Such a wonderful first person tale from late WW2

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2023

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Story well written by soldier who experienced the war as it climaxed and ended in Germany. Beautifully told from carefully preserved notes taken from the field of action. Honest, frank, and worth study.

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excellent recounting of a foot soldier in the ranks

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023

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The blood and the mud of a front line soldier’s experience in the western theatre. A very good read indeed.

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Wonderful adventure

Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2022

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Initially I didn,t think I would enjoy his writing. How wrong I was! Descriptive and engrossing, an Infantryman's real thoughts

Ken

Easy read

Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2019

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Enjoyed the book

Mikecjb

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2017

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A well written and interesting read depicting the privations and day to day life of a foot soldier.

Arthur R Clinton

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2018

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interesting

bigdude741

Needs to be read by all

Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2013

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Great book and the young generation today should study it in schools as our History of then common men and women who fought this war to save us from speaking a different language today , Lest we forget and don't let it happen again..

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