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Books on Army, Infantry Battles
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- 5 visitors recommend:
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
Source: Amazon
Author: Alex Kershaw
- From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys, this is the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge.
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- 15 visitors recommend:
D-Day June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of World War II
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Ambrose "provides a comprehensive history of the invasion which also eloquently testifies as to how common soldiers performed extraordinary feats .... The many small stories that Ambrose collected from paratroopers, sailors, infantrymen, and civilians make the excitement, confusion, and sheer terror of D-day come alive on the page." (1994)
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- 9 visitors recommend:
Crossing the Sauer: A Memoir of World War II
Source: Burford Books
Author: Charles Reis Felix
- "Crossing the Sauer is a tough, vivid, honest, and tautly written memoir of advancing through Germany with Patton's Third Army." (April 2002)
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- 8 visitors recommend:
Kasserine Pass: Rommel's Bloody, Climatic Battle for Tunisia
Source: Cooper Square Press
Author: Martin Blumenson
- "The desert battle at Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first real confrontation between American and German troops, and the one that pitted Eisenhower's and Patton's leadership against Rommel's." (September 2000)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II
Source: Presidio Press
Author: Belton Y. Cooper, foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose
- "As American tanks raced across France, one fact became immediately clear: One-on-one, the Sherman tank with its 75 mm main gun was no match for the more heavily armored and heavily-gunned German tanks that it faced across the battlefield." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (September 1998)
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- 4 visitors recommend:
The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II
Source: Presidio Press
Author: John C. McManus
- "How is it that soldiers can leave the safety, albeit dubious, of a foxhole and attack knowing that it may result in their grave injury or even death?" Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (June 1998)
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Island Victory : The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll
Source: Amazon
Author: Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall
- One of the best descriptions of combat in the Pacific war. The book tells the stories of squad and platoon fights with holed-up Japanese on islands no more than 250 yards wide. There are no generals or colonels here, no high-level planning or strategy. This is the story of ground combat from the vantage point of the individual infantryman. (1983)
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- 3 visitors recommend:
Battling For Saipan: The True Story of an American Hero
Source: Presidio Press
Author: Francis A. O'Brien
- "The inspiring story of Lieutenant Colonel William J. O'Brien and his battalion at Saipan." (June 2002)
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- 3 visitors recommend:
The Mortarmen
Source: Amazon
Author: Michael Connelly
- "The Mortarmen is the epic and never before told story of the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion. The men of the 87th landed on Utah Beach on D-Day with their 4.2" mortars and quickly became one of the most sought after fire support units in the European Theater of Operations (ETO)."
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Source: Amazon
Author: James Reston, Jr.
- From an Amazon reader: "Reston weaves a spectacular tapestry of the Third Crusade by following the heroics (and frailties) of Richard Lionheart and the great Muslim Sultan Saladin. While describing the campaign and his protagonists in detail so realistic that the reader almost feels like he is a participant, the suthor also provides the background of the politics and intrigue of 12th century Europe with its heroes and villains." (2001)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat In the East, 1944
Source: Praeger Publishers
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
- "Mitcham chronicles the crushing German defeats that ensued during the final months of the war." (September 2001)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Company Commander
Source: Amazon
Author: Charles B. MacDonald
- One of the most moving and honest first-person accounts of small-unit command responsibility available. MacDonald was one of the youngest captains in the Army in 1944 when his company was hit and overrun in the first hours of the German offensive. (1978)
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- 1 visitors recommend:
My Time in War
Source: ray t nawrocki
E-mail: mark@mytimeinwar.com
- "This book is about a young man from
Clinton Indiana who did not hesitate to
answer the call of his country. It
didn't matter whether he wanted to go or
not. He like many other young men from
small towns answered the call, to
protect the rights of all individuals
then and now, family or strangers. Many
of them laid down their lives so that
today you have a choice to read this
book or not."
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- 10 visitors recommend:
5th Division 'Diamond Dust' CD
Source: Diamond Dust
City: Denville, State: NJ
- 111 issues of "Diamond Dust," the two-sided daily 5th Division foxhole news sheet, on CD.
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