Foreword a Rolling (1 results)

Hardback. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Viking Press - May 1946) Includes dust jacket and slipcase - VERY GOOD in good mylar protected dust jacket. Slipcase is poor with 2 edges split and corner and edge wear. No marks in text. Binding is tight and square. Pages and dj are tanned with some light soiling on front edge. Some foxing on cloth boards. 2 fold out maps and 3 fold out pictures. xiv, 260 pages: illustrations, plates (some folded, some color), portraits, maps (some folded) 26 cm. TABLE OF CONTENTS: * PART I: THE SIEGRIED LINE: 1.) The big picture -- 2.) Prummern -- 3.) Geilenkirchen -- 4.) Lindern -- 5.) Goodbye to the Siegfried line -- * PART II: THE ARDENNES: 6.) At all costs -- 7.) The battle of the Bulge -- * PART III: TO THE RHINE: 8.) The battle behind the battle -- 9.) Across the Roer -- 10.) The break-through -- 11.) At the Rhine -- * PART IV: TO THE ELBE: 12.) Across the Rhine -- 13.) Across the weser -- 14.) Elbe, we are here -- 15.) Another journey's end. . . . . . FROM THE FRONT DIST JACKET FLAP: In the 84th Infantry Division, a unique experiment was attempted. As soon as the division was sent into combat, our own historical section was formed. It was encouraged to go direct to the source, to the men themselves, from the commanding general to any private, for the most complete, firsthand information on every action. This book is largely based on hundreds of pages of such interviews, most of them within 48 hours of the unit?s relief and many of them while the unity was still fighting. Primarily, this history is meant for the men who made it. The war was a tremendous experience for all of us and it will enrich that experience to get a full understanding of it. It is possible to get closer to the real war in a division history than on any other level. A division is high enough in the scale of military organization to observe the effects of the most general strategic planning and low enough to watch how the plans worked out in the smallest detail.