Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself. He argues that the grim logic of protracted combat threatened soldiers not only with the loss of limbs and lives but with growing isolation from country and commanders and, ultimately, with psychological disintegration.
Making the Corps
Thomas E. Ricks
audiobookbook
Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War
David J. Morris
book
Vietnam : The Necessary War
Michael Lind
book
Blitzkrieg in their own Words
book
Paradise General : Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq
Dave Hnida
book
Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
John Mosier
book
Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive : Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II
Bill Yenne
book
Orientation for the Pacific Theater
US War Department
book
Horse Soldiers : The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Doug Stanton
book
Air Warriors : The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot
Douglas Waller
book
The Brink : President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Marc Ambinder
book
The Frogmen of World War II: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams
Chet Cunningham
book