4th Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Title | 4th Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Scott R. Schoner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781542861403 |
Reprint edition of "4th Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials including 68 terrain photographs with accompanying map sections showing the exact location and orientation of the camera when taking the image. The original text includes 1 orientation map; 25 additional maps have been added, as well as a section on the official campaign credits awarded to units of the division and a section on the victory medal and victory medal clasps.NOTE: the 5 large folding maps that accompanied the original printing are not reproduced in this volume.
42d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Title | 42d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Schoner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2017-03-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781542861694 |
Reprint edition of 42d Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials.
80th Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Title | 80th Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Scott R. Schoner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2017-03-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781542861762 |
Reprint edition of "80th Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials.
33d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Title | 33d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Scott R. Schoner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2017-03-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781542861649 |
Reprint edition of "33d Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials including 56 terrain photographs with accompanying map sections showing the exact location and orientation of the camera when taking the image. The original text includes 1 orientation map; 18 additional maps have been added, as well as a section on the official campaign credits awarded to units of the division and a section on the victory medal and victory medal clasps.NOTE: the 4 large folding maps that accompanied the original printing are not reproduced in this volume.Note that this volume is printed in full color due to the graphics on the map sections.
32d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Title | 32d Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Schoner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-03-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781542861618 |
Reprint edition of "32d Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials.
4th Armored Division in World War II
Title | 4th Armored Division in World War II PDF eBook |
Author | George Forty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1616732644 |
Yesterday There Was Glory
Title | Yesterday There Was Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Andrew Howell |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1574417045 |
In 1946, World War I veteran and self-described “buck private in the rear rank” Gerald Andrew Howell finished a memoir of the experiences of his squad from the 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and their “moments of horror, tragedy, humor, amour, [and] promiscuity” in Europe. This was “the old Army as it used to be,” Howell explains—the saga of the “down-trodden doughboy.” A few months later Howell was dead, his manuscript unpublished. Jeffrey Patrick discovered the memoir and the author’s correspondence with publishers and took on the task of bringing it to publication at last. Yesterday There Was Glory is an unpretentious account of men at war, from training camp to the occupation of Germany. It includes graphic descriptions of the battlefield, of shell fire, gas attacks, and lice. “Between the attacks the men would lay in their wet holes and pray for relief. But no relief came,” Howell remembers. He recalls much more than the horrors of combat, however, chronicling the diverse collection of heroes, professional warriors, shirkers, and braggarts that made up the American Expeditionary Forces. Howell and his comrades longed for wounds that would allow them to escape the war, but resolutely engaged the Germans in hand-to-hand combat. They poked fun at their comrades, but were willing to share their last can of food. They endured difficult marches, pursued “mademoiselles” and “frauleins,” and even staged a “strike” to protest mistreatment by their officers. They were as “ribald as any soldiery in any army,” Howell admits, but “underneath this veneer, they were really patriotic, steadfast and sincere.” Patrick provides an editor’s introduction and annotations to explain terms and sources in the memoir. Howell’s account preserves the flavor of army life with conversations and banter in soldier language, including the uncensored doughboy profanity often heard but seldom recorded.