Panther Soup Travels Through Europe in War and Peace

Name: Panther Soup Travels Through Europe in War and Peace
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ISBN: 9780307265425

ISBN-10: 0307265420

ISBN-13: 9780307265425

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Gimlette

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In 2004, John Gimlette set off across Europe, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest armies ever assembled: the United States forces of 1944–45. His guide (emotionally if not geographically) was Putnam Flint, an eighty-six-year-old Bostonian who had landed in Marseille in the midst of World War II with his tank destroyer battalion, nicknamed The Panthers. With Flint’s help, Gimlette traveled back through the war to try to grasp the physical, social, and psychological realities of the smashed and sodden continent that Europe had become.Panther Soupis the heartfelt, keenly observed—and often unexpectedly humorous—chronicle of that journey: a brilliant hybrid of travelogue and…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Illustrations and Maps


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Une Entree Americaine


La Soupe Marseillaise


Picnics on the Rhone


Alsatian Crackers


La Sauce Parisienne


Mash Lorraine


Sauerkraut und Blitzen


Bavarian Waffles


Sweet Tyrol


Schlachtteller, or Death on a Plate


Finishing with Chicken


Afterword


Bibliography


Index