From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized
biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company,
Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of
Brothers.
As a boy, Darrell "Shifty" Powers's goal was to become the best rifle
shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to
"see" without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills
would one day save his life--and the lives of his fellow paratroopers.
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. 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.
Shifty's War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier's
blood-filled days fighting his way fromthe 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.