At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered ten to one, slowed the German advance and allowed the Belgian town of Bastogne to be reinforced. "Alamo in the Ardennes" provides a compelling, day ...
What makes a soldier enter the inferno of death and destruction that is the battlefield? What was battle like for the World War II American combat soldier and marine? Using letters, diaries, on the spot historical surveys, memoirs, and oral histories, DEADLY BROTHERHOOD examines and answers these questions fully, not as an examination of military ...
"Deadly Sky" tells the story of America's combat flyers who battled the Axis from the air. As he did in his tribute to combat soldiers and marines, McManus covers all services and all theaters of operations. 24 photos.
Want to know more about American military history? "U.S. Military History For Dummies" presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's armed conflicts from the French and Indian War to Iraq. It explains how the U.S. military is organized and how its branches operate, both independently and together. This straightforward guide ...
Engrossing, lightning-quick, and filled with real human sorrow and elation, "The Americans at D-Day" honors the memory of those Americans who lost their lives, and those who survived.
In "The Americans at D-Day," the first volume of this series, John C. McManus showed us the American experience in Operation Overlord. Now, in this succeeding volume, he does the same for the Battle of Normandy as a whole. Never before has the American involvement in Normandy been examined so thoroughly or exclusively as in "The Americans at ...
Only one U.S. Army regiment, the 7th Infantry, has served in every war from 1812 through the present day. In "The 7th Infantry Regiment: Combat in an Age of Terror," heralded military historian John C. McManus told the dramatic story of the 7th Infantry Regiment's modern combat experiences, from Korea through Iraq. Now, in this compelling prequel, ...
Sentenced to death as a Fascist spy by Republican forces in war-torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman's life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator over Greece, war correspondent Henry 'Hank' Gorrell often found himself in the thick of the fighting he had been sent to cover. And in reporting on some of the world's most dangerous stories, he held ...
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