Context of The Liberator

The Liberator is about one mans journey through World War two and what he has to deal with to survive. The book is about a man named Felix Sparks who is the main character also known as the The Liberator. Alex and his battalion saw many forms of hell while in battle he lost many men and saw lots of overall death. One of the most profound things he came across was the concentration camp called Dachau he describes this as the literal definition of hell. Alex and his battalion are part of the 7th armies 45th division also known as the thunderbirds. Sparks was raised in Arizona during the depressions years and was drafted into the military following Pearl Harbor attack, when he left to fight he left behind his pregnant wife. While fighting in Sicily he quickly discovered he liked to be in the action and wanted to fight at the front line with his men. Sparks was ordered to liberate Dachau and when he arrived there he found boxcars filled with corpses and it pushed his men to there limit and they started killing the SS gaurds they had prisoner, sparks quickly put an into that though.