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Guard Wars
2010
Overview
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.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253355218, 0253355214
