We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
4 hrs 45 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 8
SMOG Index Grade 10
Coleman Liau Index Grade 9
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 5

Reading Time

4 hrs 45 mins

How long to read We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There?

The estimated word count of We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There is 71,145 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 45 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 55 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 39 mins.

We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There - 71,145 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 7 hrs 55 mins
Average 250 words/min 4 hrs 45 mins
Fast 450 words/min 2 hrs 39 mins
We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There by Bob Kern
Authors
Bob Kern

More about We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There

71,145 words

Word Count

for We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War from the US Soldiers Who Served There

180 pages

Pages
Paperback: 180 pages

7 hours and 39 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Finalist for eBook of the Year General Nonfiction and Finalist for Book of the Year Nonfiction Military History in 2016#1 Amazon Best Seller Cold War History for 5 WeeksGround zero for a nuclear war was just over an hour northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The small town of Fulda is nestled at the base of a natural gap in the hilly wooded terrain of West Germany and was a corridor between East and West Germany. Referred to as the Fulda Gap, this corridor was very likely the path the Warsaw forces and the Soviet Union would have taken to invade Europe. The following is a historical look at the Cold War in Germany through the careers of seventeen veterans who served there. These are their stories as they prepared to defend the Fulda Gap and ground zero”The brave men and women who served in West Germany were the first line of defense against the enemy horde that would come through the gap if hostilities ever began. Their mission was to hold that advancing horde for forty-eight hours until reinforcements arrived. None of them were expected to survive an invasion and they all knew it. This was what they had enlisted for, it was their job, and they did it proudly.Scroll up and grab a copy today.!