Old Hickory (eBook)

The 30th Division: The Top-Rated American Infantry Division in Europe in World War II

Robert W. Baumer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
432 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
9780811765718 (ISBN)

Infos

The vividly detailed story of how the U.S. 30th Infantry Division—from the hill country of Tennessee and the Carolinas and nicknamed “Old Hickory” after Andrew Jackson—cemented its reputation as the best American infantry division of WW II with hard fighting in every major U.S. campaign in the European theater, from Normandy to Germany's surrender.

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The best U.S. division at war, from Normandy to the Bulge and beyondThe 30th Infantry Division, drawn from the hill country of Tennessee and the Carolinas, was regarded during World War II as the cream of the crop of U.S. fighting units. The Germans agreed, calling the division ';Roosevelt's SS' for its tenacity and skill. The 30th fought in Normandy, along the Siegfried Line (where it conducted ';the perfect infantry attack'), at the Battle of the Bulge, and in the final operations inside Germany. Baumer relies on primary sources to tell the story of this remarkable unit and its men in what is sure to become a classic World War II division history.

Autor

Robert W. Baumer, a graduate of the University of Illinois, has been writing about World War II for twenty years. He is a former columnist for Armchair General, author of Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II (978-0-8117-1482-2), and coauthor with Mark Reardon of American Iliad: The 18th Infantry Regiment in World War II (978-0-9717650-5-4).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 31 Illustrations including: - 26 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 5 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 30th Infantry Division • Aachen • Battle of the Bulge • best divisions of World War II • D-Day • Greatest Generation • Guns at Last Light • Lew Adams • Mortain • National Guard division • Old Hickory • pbs documentary • presidential unit citation • rick atkinson • Roosevelt's SS • siegfried line • Tom Brokaw • united states military history • U.S. infantry • U.S. Military History • war in Germany • World War II • World War II unit history • WWII • WWII battles
• ISBN-13: 9780811765718 / 9780811765718