THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A band of brothers in an American Tank .
Makos established himself as a meticulous researcher who\'s equally adept at spinning a. . . --USA Today (four out of four stars) Strong and dramatic . the remarkable story of two Tank crewmen, from opposite sides of the conflict, who endure the grisly nature of Tank warfare. . .
Praise for Spearhead A detailed, gripping account .
What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.
As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are taken by surprise by a tragic mistake of war.
And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.
Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman.
Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the Fortress City of Germany.
That\'s how Clarence, the corporal from coal country, finds himself leading the U.
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But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now they will spearhead every attack.
After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art super tank, one of twenty in the European theater.
Soon a pattern emerged: The lead Tank always gets hit.
Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next.
At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division--Spearhead--thought their tanks were invincible.
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner\'s seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He\'s a natural-born shooter. --The Wall Street Journal From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American Tank gunner\'s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel--and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing\'s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury. . .
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A band of brothers in an American Tank
