No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy

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Summary: I knew this story and was still touched by the writing of it
Review: I heard Walter Carter tell this story before he put it on paper and yet, despite that fact, I was riveted by his telling of it again. This slim volume is a wonderful read and a very personal recounting of the sacrifices endured by the sons and daughters of Brokaw's "greatest generation." Read it for the history, for the story and for the lasting impression it will leave with you.

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Summary: A moving tribute
Review: Last night I finished reading Walter Carter's "No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy." I have never before offered a review of anything on Amazon, but this book demanded a few words.

Walter Carter has created a deeply moving account of his personal journey of discovery as he reconstructs his father's years of service and ultimate sacrifice during WWII.

History and WWII buffs will probably just love this book. I'm neither and I loved it because it's just a great read!

With the WWII memorial about to be officially opened on the Mall in Washington, DC, it couldn't be a better time to pick up this book.

Rating:
Summary: A moving tribute
Review: Last night I finished reading Walter Carter's "No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy." I have never before offered a review of anything on Amazon, but this book demanded a few words.

Walter Carter has created a deeply moving account of his personal journey of discovery as he reconstructs his father's years of service and ultimate sacrifice during WWII.

History and WWII buffs will probably just love this book. I'm neither and I loved it because it's just a great read!

With the WWII memorial about to be officially opened on the Mall in Washington, DC, it couldn't be a better time to pick up this book.

Rating:
Summary: A moving tribute
Review: Last night I finished reading Walter Carter's "No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy." I have never before offered a review of anything on Amazon, but this book demanded a few words.

Walter Carter has created a deeply moving account of his personal journey of discovery as he reconstructs his father's years of service and ultimate sacrifice during WWII.

History and WWII buffs will probably just love this book. I'm neither and I loved it because it's just a great read!

With the WWII memorial about to be officially opened on the Mall in Washington, DC, it couldn't be a better time to pick up this book.

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Summary: The Eternal Sadness of the burdened heart
Review: Military history focuses on battles and campaigns in linear time stopping and starting around the time of the war. WW2 Memoirs cover in greater detail the lives of the particpants usually before and during the war but usually stop there or only give a brief postscript. This work is unusual because the author tells you up front the basic story and then unfolds it from there. The knowledge of Norval Carter's fate looms like a shadow over the story but nevertheless his death and his son's (the co-author)discovery of his father still will bring the tears when you get to those pages. This is a story about the meaning of courage, sacrifice and the meaning of being a father and husband. The story covers the events of the war and the buildup for D-day in enough detail that even someone with no knowledge or interest in military history will enjoy and understand this story. At a slim 199 pages it is a very quick read. I highly recommend this book for anyone.

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Summary: A personal story of what sacrifice really means ...
Review: The book is a personal story of a man trying to come to grips with who his family was and what sacrifice really means to those who are left behind to pick-up the pieces of their lives after the father/husband was killed in the 1944 Normandy campaign. Mr. Carter, one of the co-authors of the book and son of CPT Carter, successfully communicates who his father and mother were - whether those stories were done for their childhood days, young adult lives, CPT Cater's military experiences, and the later days leading to his mother's death. The sacrifice of the Carter family was not only the death of the father, but also those who were left behind. Sacrifice and love are threads that hold this story together. This is a very good read.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This is a GREAT book. It combines a herioc father, a love story and the sacrifice one faces as a soldier. It is also a moving tribute to a father from a son who really didn't know his father well until he discovered letters in his mother's attic. WHAT A TREMENDOUS STORY! Thanks Walter Ford Carter for sharing it with us. BUY THIS BOOK - You won't regret it!

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Summary: A deeply moving personal remembrance
Review: Walter Carter has put a wonderful personal face on an event that most of us have only known through history books and movies. This book has two very moving stories: Carter's journey to discover the father he never new, and the amazing heroism of an army doctor on D-Day.

It is comforting to realize that men like Dr. Norval Carter existed, and it is heart-rendering to reflect upon what they sacrificed.

Rating:
Summary: A deeply moving personal remembrance
Review: Walter Carter has put a wonderful personal face on an event that most of us have only known through history books and movies. This book has two very moving stories: Carter's journey to discover the father he never new, and the amazing heroism of an army doctor on D-Day.

It is comforting to realize that men like Dr. Norval Carter existed, and it is heart-rendering to reflect upon what they sacrificed.