Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart, and posthumously promoted to Brigadier General by President Truman, Colonel William Darby was an indisputable hero. His elite battalion of Army Rangers paved the way for Ranger success in subsequent wars and left an unforgettable legacy in its wake.On a beach in Salerno, Italy, in 1943, shortly after an American invasion, a staff officer stopped an Army Ranger and asked him where he might find William Darby. The Ranger replied, "You'll never find him this far back."William Darby was one of the most successful - and admirable - officers of World War II. At the start of the war, he was an artillery captain and a general's aide-de-camp. But by 1945, he was a full colonel who had commanded Ranger battalions in twelve major battles, including the invasions of North Africa and Sicily, and the landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy. Darby never led his men into a fight he wouldn't take on personally, and his group of specially selected, hard-trained Army Rangers became legendary for their astonishing bravery and deadlines under fire.Onward We Charge takes readers from the beachheads of North Africa to the bloody campaigns of southern Italy, and to Darby's tragic death from German shrapnel just eight days before VE Day. This is the true story of a man who held his own beside the greatest military figures in history. Read Less