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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....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pogue, Forrest C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.