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Jacob L. Devers
General Jacob L. \"Jake\" Devers (1897-1979) was one of only two
officers-the other was Omar C. Bradley-to command an army group
during the decisive campaigns of 1944-1945 that liberated Europe
and ended the war with Nazi Germany. After the war, Devers led the
Army Ground Forces in the United States and eventually retired in
1949 after forty years of service. Despite incredible successes on
the battlefield, General George C. Marshall's \"dependable man\"
remains one of the most underrated and overlooked figures of his
generation.
In this definitive biography, James Scott Wheeler delivers a
groundbreaking reassessment of the American commander whose
contributions to victory in Europe are topped only by General
Dwight D. Eisenhower's. Wheeler's exhaustively researched chronicle
of Devers's life and career reveals a leader who demonstrated an
extraordinary ability to cut through red tape and solve complex
problems. Nevertheless, Eisenhower disliked Devers-a fact laid bare
when he ordered Devers's Sixth Army Group to halt at the Rhine.
After the war, Eisenhower's and Bradley's accounts of the generals'
disagreements over strategy and tactics became received wisdom, to
the detriment of Devers's reputation.
An essential contribution to twentieth-century history,
Jacob L. Devers provides a fresh and nuanced
interpretation of the senior command during World War II and offers
a new perspective on a highly accomplished soldier.
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Battlefield Surgeon
In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the
St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as
part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North
Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group,
he spent the next thirty-four months working in North Africa,
Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines
and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable,
struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife, for whom
he kept detailed diaries to ease his unrelenting loneliness.
In Battlefield Surgeon , Kennedy's son
Christopher has edited his father's journals and provided
historical context to produce an invaluable personal chronicle.
What emerges is a vivid record of the experiences of a medical
officer in the European theater of operations in World War II.
Kennedy participated in some of the fiercest action of the war,
including Operation Avalanche, the attack on Anzio, and Operation
Dragoon. He also arrived in Rome the day after the Allied troops,
and entered the Dachau concentration camp two days after it was
liberated.
Despite the enormous success of the popular M*A*S*H
franchise, there are still surprisingly few authentic accounts of
military doctors and medical practice during wartime. As a young,
inexperienced surgeon, Kennedy grappled with cases much more
serious and complex than he had ever faced in civilian practice.
Featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II
historian Rick Atkinson and an afterword by U.S. Army medical
historian John T. Greenwood, this remarkable firsthand account
offers an essential perspective on the Second World War.
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The British are coming : the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
\"Rick Atkinson ... has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, the ragtag Continental Army takes on the world's most formidable fighting force and gradually finds the will and the way to win. It is a riveting saga populated by singular characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of how best to deploy artillery; Nathaniel Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes one of America's greatest battle captains; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves himself the nation's greatest diplomat; George Washington, the commander-in-chief who learns the difficult art of leadership amid the fire and smoke of the battlefield. And the British are here, too: we see the war through their eyes and their gunsights, and as a consequence the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels is all the more compelling. Full of fresh details and untold stories, The British Are Coming gives stirring new life to the first act of our country's creation drama. It is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. But once begun, the war for independence can have only one of two outcomes: death or victory.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Combat Reporter
p\"No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.\"-from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead is one of the legendary reporters of World War II. For the Associated Press he covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in the recent Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism. From the fall of September 1942, as a freshly minted A.P. journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, Whitehead kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Back home later, Whitehead started, but never finished, a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat. John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a vivid, unvarnished, and completely riveting story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Here, Whitehead captures the fierce fighting in the African desert and Sicilian mountains, as well as rare insights into the daily grind of reporting from a war zone, where tedium alternated with terror. In the tradition of cartoonist Bill Mauldin's memoir Up Front, Don Whitehead's powerful self-portrait is destined to become an American classic./p
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The fate of the day : the war for America, Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
\"In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington's army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The longest day ; A bridge too far ; other World War II writings
A veteran journalist fascinated by the experiences of ordinary people caught up in fear and crisis, Cornelius Ryan combined exhaustive research with a novelist's gift for storytelling in his brilliant World War II classics The Longest Day (1959) and A Bridge Too Far (1974). For each book Ryan interviewed or corresponded with hundreds of military veterans and civilian participants, weaving their individual stories together in books at once epic in scale and intimate in focus. A visit to the Normandy beaches in 1949 inspired Ryan to write a book about D-Day, a task that took a decade to complete. The Longest Day is a democratic history in which American paratrooper John Steele, hanging from a church steeple in the midst of battle, and German infantryman Josef Häger, trapped inside a besieged bunker, share the stage with top commanders General Dwight Eisenhower and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Ryan captures the nervous anticipation felt by Allied servicemen and French civilians as they await the signal for the invasion; chronicles the confused German response to the Allied onslaught; and provides cinematic depictions of the grim battle for Ste.-Mère-Église, the desperate assault on the Merville battery, and the bloody struggle to get off Omaha Beach. In Ryan's tragic masterpiece A Bridge Too Far (1974), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's uncharacteristically bold plan to end the war in 1944 by crossing the Rhine in Holland sets in motion the greatest airborne assault in history. Ryan narrates with consummate skill the heartbreaking hour-by-hour unraveling of Operation Market Garden as the Allied offensive encounters unexpected German resistance, precipitating a series of merciless battles fought in the Dutch countryside and the shattered streets of Nijmegen and Arnhem. Written as Ryan was fighting his own private battle with cancer, A Bridge Too Far is an unforgettable story of physical and mental suffering, bewildering confusion, stubborn endudurance, and unyielding.
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