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Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
12TH ARMY GROUP REPORT OF OPERATIONS
Author: World War II Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation
Author: Rebecca L. CollierPublisher:
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Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
United States Army in World War II
Author: United States. Military History, Office of the Chief ofPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
United States Army in World War II.: The techinical services
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Signal Corps
Author: George Raynor ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Signal Corps: The outcome (mid-1943 through 1945)
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Crusade in Europe
Author: Dwight D. EisenhowerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
A classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United States. • "Gives the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life." —The New York Times Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as he planned and executed it. Through Eisenhower's eyes the enormous scope and drama of the war--strategy, battles, moments of great decision--become fully illuminated in all their fateful glory. Penned before his Presidency, this account is deeply human and helped propel him to the highest office. His personal record of the tense first hours after he had issued the order to attack leaves no doubt of his travails and reveals how this great leader handled the ultimate pressure. For historians, his memoir of this world historic period has become an indispensable record of the war and timeless classic.
A Command Post at War
Author: David W. HoganPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160497711
Category : Command of troops
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Discusses the first Army headquarters in the European theater, from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the Army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units. CMH Pub 70-60.
Army History
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Abundance of Valor
Author: Will IrwinPublisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0345519086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The operation known as “Market Garden”—made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory that has become a legend of World War II, even as it still invites criticism from historians. Now a thrilling and revelatory new book re-creates the operation as never before, revealing for the first time the full adventures of the bold “Jedburgh” paratroopers whose exploits were almost unimaginably risky and heroic. Kicked off on September 17, 1944, Market Garden was intended to secure crucial bridges in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by a parachute assault conducted by three Allied airborne divisions. Capture of the bridges would allow a swift advance and crossing of the Rhine by British ground forces. Jedburgh teams—Allied Special Forces—were dropped into the Netherlands to train and use the Dutch resistance in support of the larger operation. Based on new firsthand testimony of survivors and declassified documents, Abundance of Valor concentrates on the three teams that operated farthest behind enemy lines, the nine men whose treacherous missions resulted in deaths, captures, and hair-breadth escapes. Here in unprecedented detail are the heat and stench of fuel, oil, and sweat in the troop carriers going over, the remarkable (and misleading) initial success of the daylight parachute landings, and the deadly, brutally effective German response, particularly by crack SS armored units in the blood-soaked town of Arnhem. Abundance of Valor portrays with stunning verisimilitude the experiences of Lt. Harvey Allan Todd, who fought from a surrounded position against overwhelming numbers of the enemy before surviving capture, near-starvation, interrogation, and solitary confinement in German POW camps, and Maj. John “Pappy” Olmsted, who made a hazardous journey, in disguise, from safe house to safe house through enemy territory until finally reaching friendly lines. With piercing criticism of the mission’s ultimate failure from faulty use of intelligence—and Field Marshall Montgomery’s distrust of the Dutch underground—Abundance of Valor is a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of fighting men in a noble cause who did their jobs with extraordinary honor and courage.
