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Guard Wars
An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the
Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National
Guard's 28th Infantry Division from its peacetime status through training and into
combat in Western Europe. The broader story, spanning the years 1939--1945, sheds
light on the National Guard, the U.S. Army, and American identities and priorities
during the war years. Michael E. Weaver carefully tracks the division's difficult
transformation into a combat-ready unit and highlights General Omar Bradley's
extraordinary capacity for leadership -- which turned the Pennsylvanians from the
least capable to one of the more capable units, a claim dearly tested in the Battle
of the Hürtgen Forest. This absorbing and informative analysis chronicles the
nation's response to the extreme demands of a world war, and the flexibility its
leaders and soldiers displayed in the chaos of combat.
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The Battle for Western Europe, Fall 1944
This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the
decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leading
up to the Battle of the Bulge. In late August 1944 defeat of the Wehrmacht seemed
assured. On December 16, however, the Germans counterattacked. Received wisdom says
that Eisenhower's Broad Front strategy caused his armies to stall in early
September, and his subsequent failure to concentrate his forces brought about
deadlock and opened the way for the German attack. Arguing to the contrary, John A.
Adams demonstrates that Eisenhower and his staff at SHAEF had a good campaign
strategy, refined to reflect developments on the ground, which had an excellent
chance of destroying the Germans west of the Rhine.
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A Cause Greater than Self
A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his family—and especially his war-hero father—by being dismissed from West Point, Michael J. Daly would go on to display selfless courage and heroic leadership on the battlefields of Europe during World War II. Starting as an enlisted man and rising through the ranks to become a captain and company commander, Daly’s devotion to his men and his determination to live up to the ideals taught to him by his father led him to extraordinary acts of bravery on behalf of others, resulting in three Silver Stars, a Bronze Star with “V” attachment for valor, two Purple Hearts, and finally, the Medal of Honor.
Historian Stephen J. Ochs mined archives and special collections and conducted numerous personal interviews with Daly, his family and friends, and the men whom he commanded and with whom he served. The result is a carefully constructed, in-depth portrait of a warrior-hero who found his life’s deepest purpose, both during and after the war, in selfless service to others. After a period of post-war drift, Daly finally escaped the “hero’s cage” and found renewed purpose through family and service. He became a board member at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he again assumed the role of defender and guardian by championing the cause of the indigent poor and the terminally ill, earning the sobriquet, “conscience of the hospital.”
A Cause Greater than Self: The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient is at once a unique, father-son wartime saga, a coming-of-age narrative, and the tale of a heroic man’s struggle to forge a new and meaningful postwar life. Daly’s story also highlights the crucial role played by platoon and company infantry officers in winning both major battles like those on D-Day and in lesser-known campaigns such as those of the Colmar Pocket and in south-central Germany, further reinforcing the debt that Americans owe to them—especially those whose selfless courage merited the Medal of Honor.
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Chaplain's Conflict
As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--\"Ren\" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched from the precipice of death, all under the most trying conditions. He also observed drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and chronic depression. What he saw, he chronicled in his journal, and what he wrote, he processed with an intellectual and ethical rigor born of his remarkably sophisticated worldview and his deeply held Christian faith. With Kennedy's war diaries and postwar articles published in Christian Century and Time magazines in front of him, historian Tennant McWilliams spent a year retracing every step, every turn, every location of the 102nd in wartime France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany, compiling rich detail on this episode in Kennedy's life. McWilliams's interviews with citizens of France and Luxembourg who recall the 102nd further revealed local people's reactions to the army hospital that illuminated both Kennedy's severe criticism and his enduring praise for evac life. The result is a candid view of what went on in the World War II evac hospitals. With a nuanced and gritty style, The Chaplain's Conflict shatters the self-interested and sometimes sentimental images of evacs held by some among the medical community. This complex and compelling observation of doctors practicing war-zone medicine in World War II will hold great appeal for readers of military and medical history, as well as those interested in the socio-cultural, ethical, and religious implications of war and military service.
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The rise of Germany, 1939-1941
\" In The Rise of Germany, the first of a major new three-part history of World War II in the West, he weaves together the experiences of dozens of individuals, from civilians and infantrymen, to line officers, military strategists, diplomats, and heads of state, as well as war strategy, tactics, and the economic, political, and social aspects of the war to create a captivating book that redefines and enhances our understanding of one of the most significant conflicts in history,\"--Amazon.com.
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The Soldiers' General
A complex, analytical yet accessible portrait of Bert Hoffmeister, who won more awards than any Canadian officer in the Second World War.
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