The Boys of Winter : Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War /

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"Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, Charles J. Sanders reveals the stories of these young men. Sanders traces their journeys from childhood to ski championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to bloody battles against the Nazis in...

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Autor principal: Sanders, Charles J. (Charles Jeffrey), 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nunnemacher, Jacob, > 1919-1945
Konieczny, Rudy, > 1918-1945
Bromaghin, Ralph, > 1918-1945
Bromaghin, Ralph, > 1918-1945.
Nunnemacher, Jacob, > 1919-1945.
Konieczny, Rudy, > 1918-1945.
United States. > Army. > Mountain Division, 10th.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Ski troops.
United States. > Army. > Mountain Division, 10th > History.
Soldiers.
Regimental histories.
Mountain warfare.
Military campaigns.
Armed Forces > Ski troops.
World War, 1939-1945 > Mountain warfare.
Soldiers > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy.
United States.
Italy.
Biographies.
History.
Nonfiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by John B. Woodward
  • The hero of the thunderbolt (Rudy Konieczny)
  • The Pied Piper of Pine Lake (Jake Nunnemacher)
  • The Sun Valley serenader (Ralph Bromaghin)
  • The time of their lives
  • Rocky Mountain highs
  • From Alaska to Austin
  • General Clark and the war in Italy
  • Good-byes
  • Into the Maelstrom
  • The ridges that could not be taken
  • The brutal road to Castle d'Aiano
  • Rest and recuperation
  • The bloodbath of spring
  • Bad times
  • Pursuit to the Alps
  • Home
  • Legacy.

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