Fighting in the Great Crusade: An 8th Infantry Artillery Officer in World War II

Gregory A. Daddis

ISBN 10: 0807127574 / ISBN 13: 9780807127575

Published by Louisiana State University Press, 2002

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Synopsis: Fighting in the Great Crusade combines the terse clarity of George E. Schwend's World War II combat journals with Gregory Daddis's expert commentary on the greater context of that conflict. The result is the rare military work that counterpoints historical and strategic analysis against a foxhole-level view of the war in Europe as U.S. soldiers experienced it. Schwend's story, which typifies that of young American citizen soldiers on whom the Allied cause depended, follows a draftee through the rigors of basic training and Officer Candidate School and into the grim theater of the European campaigns in 1944 and 1945. The accretion of detail forms a grittily realistic day-to-day account of military life, while Daddis's expansive historical backdrop invests with poignance even such routines as Schwend's faithful attendance at movie screenings as the soldier - and readers - anticipate the fateful Normandy invasion. Schwend observes that despite the rigors of his training nothing could have prepared him or his comrades for the savagery of the actions in which they fought: the Normandy Campaign, the harrowing Huertgen Forest, the Roer and Rhine River crossings, and the final battles in

About the Author:

A graduate of West Point and a major in the United States Army, Gregory A. Daddis has served in the Persian Gulf War and in numerous positions throughout the United States and overseas.

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Title: Fighting in the Great Crusade: An 8th ...
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New