Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian /
"With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2001.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- London in the spring of 1944
- We learn top secrets or we are bigoted
- Waiting in Cornwall
- Crossing the Channel one day late
- The Lieutenant John Spaulding interview
- First days in the field
- First interviews in the field
- The last weeks of June
- Writing history for a change
- The breakout at Saint-Lô
- Restless days at the rear
- Liberated Paris
- Last Days in Normandy
- Watching Paris come to life
- Opinion and politics in liberated Paris
- Return to the field
- The deadly forest
- The North flank of the bulge
- Regaining lost ground
- Battle for the dam
- The close-up to the Rhine
- Chasing the armor across Germany
- Another form of German culture: Buchenwald
- A non-sober history of the meeting with the Russians
- Pilzen on VE-Day.