![]() "Shifty's War" is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier's blood-filled days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man's skills as a sharpshooter and engagingly unassuming personality propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined. Publication date 2011 Topics Powers, Shifty, 1923-2009, United States. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy eighty days in Holland thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. Shiftys War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell Shifty Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers. Shiftys war : the authorized biography of Sergeant Darrell 'Shifty' Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers by Brotherton, Marcus. ![]() As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life - and the lives of his friends. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to "see" without his eyes. Born in Canada, Marcus resides in Washington State with his wife and children. ![]() Print Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of BrothersĪs a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Darrell "Shifty" Powers's goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. ![]()
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