James M. Fenelon served for twelve years in the military and is a graduate of the US Army’s Airborne, Jumpmaster, and Pathfinder schools. His next book after Four Hours of Fury is Angels Against the Sun: A WWII Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood, which tells the story of the 11th Airborne Division’s campaign through the Pacific and that division’s eventual landing in Japan in the vanguard of the Allied occupation forces. An alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin, Fenelon lives with his wife in Texas. For more information, visit JamesFenelon.com.
"Details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division's role
in Operation Varsity . . . inspired."
—Wall Street Journal
“Fenelon brings his personal experience as a paratrooper to bear in
analyzing airborne operations in the 20th century’s greatest
conflict….A riveting account of an airborne division at war.”
—Army Times
“Examines Operation Varsity, a little-known but massive operation
near the end of WWII…Testimony from surviving veterans provides
gripping detail.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Tells the forgotten story of this airborne operation…[James
Fenelon] does an excellent job in interweaving personal histories
and recollections with unit histories and after-action reports to
give a good sense of the heavy fighting that occurred around the
drop and landing zones.”
—New York Journal of Books
"I was hooked . . . . The give-and-take dialogue and the
physical interchange between the members of the unit are
authentic. It is how it was! . . . If you 'were there and did
that' you'll relive it. If you're just a reader and not reliving
your own experiences in battle, some of what you read will be hard
to believe—but that is the way it was!"
—Col. William E. Weber, USA-Ret, Airborne Quarterly Magazine
“Gripping and well-written… Fenelon provides both the American and
German perspectives of the fight, deftly weaving operational
history with vivid personal accounts of the paratroopers who so
bravely floated down to earth, where the hell of war greeted
them.”
—Robert M. Edsel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Monuments Men
“Exceptional…[Fenelon] examines all of the battle’s various
aspects: from Allied and German high command strategy conferences,
to the logistics of dropping tens of thousands of soldiers behind
enemy lines, to the experiences of the paratroopers and glider
soldiers in the air and on the ground…. An extraordinary story well
told.”
—Peter R. Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The
Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945
“Deeply impactful… As you experience this four-hour descent into
chaos, you’ll feel like your own boots are hitting the ground.”
—A.J. Baime, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental
President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the
World
“Depicts as few books ever have the complex levels of planning that
are a precursor to a major invasion…Above all, [it] showcases the
speed, noise, and permanence of horrifying, front-line combat.”
—Robert O’Neill, former SEAL Team operator and New York Times
bestselling author of The Operator
“Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied
great episodes of World War II with power and authority….A
riveting read.”
—Donald L. Miller, author of Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber
Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"Fenelon has fashioned a mirror of hell… Four Hours of Fury
helps us see deeply into this little known but critical fight
to the death.”
—Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump,
The Aviators, and The Generals
"Epic… Four Hours of Fury is a fine tribute to the
gallantry of the men and women who, against overwhelming odds,
vanquished a great evil.”
—Craig Nelson, New York Times bestselling author of Pearl
Harbor, Rocket Men, and The First Heroes
“Diving into Four Hours of Fury is like opening the jump
door on a C-46 transport high over Germany in March of 1945…. The
book is a gripping reminder that the crash of war is at its most
deafening before the end.”
—Adam Makos, author of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His
Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
“A brilliant tribute to the last great parachute assault, and the
men who invaded Hitler’s empire from the air.”
—Jonathan W. Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of Brothers
Rivals Victors
“A riveting chronicle of personal courage, overwhelming logistics,
and inevitable mayhem that is as authentic as it gets.”
—Walter R. Borneman, author of Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and
the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona
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