Book Description
Illustrates and documents the clothing and individual equipment used by American soldiers during the First World War.
Author : Shelby L. Stanton
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1994-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811725958
Illustrates and documents the clothing and individual equipment used by American soldiers during the First World War.
Author : Kent Roberts Greenfield
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
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Author : William W. Hartzog
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1971
Category : United States
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Author : Martin Blumenson
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1969
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0802147682
“A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing.” —Washington Times In The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941, Paul Dickson tells the dramatic story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II. In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, America had strong isolationist leanings. The US Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific. Dickson chronicles this transformation from Franklin Roosevelt’s selection of George C. Marshall to be Army Chief of Staff to the remarkable peace-time draft of 1940 and the massive and unprecedented mock battles in Tennessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas by which the skill and spirit of the Army were forged and out of which iconic leaders like Eisenhower, Bradley, and Clark emerged. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of political and cultural isolationist resistance and racial tension at home, and the increasingly perceived threat of attack from both Germany and Japan.
Author : Ulysses Lee
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780160429514
Author : United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Mark Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780967748
When World War II broke out in September 1939 the US Army – starved of resources since 1919 – numbered just 174,000 men. By VJ-Day, 2 September 1945, a total of 8.3 million had served in an army which had risen to a stable strength of 91 divisions. The Army's contribution to the war against Japan – 20 divisions and numerous smaller units – has tended to be overshadowed by the exploits of the much smaller Marine Corps. This first of three titles describes the organisation, uniforms and equipment of the US Army in the CBI and the Central and South-West Pacific from 1941 to 1945. Men-at-Arms 342, 347 and 350 are also available as a single volume special edition as 'The US Army in World War II”.
Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0226923096
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.