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Author
Series
Campaigns and commanders volume 18
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Robert Humphrey presents a stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier. He personally retraced the path of the 99th through Belgium and Germany and conducted extensive interviews with more than three hundred surviving veterans. The memories are remarkable for their clarity, many of which are painful and long repressed. These narratives, seamlessly woven to create a collective biography, offer a gritty reenactment of World War...