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Author:

Fussell, Paul, 1924-

Title:

The boys' crusade : the American infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 / Paul Fussell.

Edition:

Modern Library pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Modern Library,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xv, 184 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
United States.--Army--History--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index.

Contents:

Seriousness -- First time abroad -- Fortitude secret -- Boys and the French -- Episode called Cobra -- Index. Boys who hold out near Mortain -- Lost opportunity at Falaise -- One small-unit action -- Haunted wood: Hurtgen Forest -- Replacements and infantry morale -- Modes of dishonor -- Treatment of damaged bones, alive and dead -- The Bulge -- The Skorzenzy Affair -- The Peiper Affair -- The End -- The Camps -- Seriousness -- Sources -- Index.

Series:

Modern Library chronicles ; 14

ISBN:

9780812974881 (pbk.)
0812974883 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2006271069

Locations:

LBPB837 -- Elk Horn Public Library (Elk Horn)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)