Work horse of the Western Front : the story of the 30th Infantry Division / Robert L. Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewitt, Robert L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.

Military campaigns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Includes over 25 maps and 50 photos.More than 60 American divisions participated in the defeat of Germany in 1944-45. This is the story of one of the best of them, a division which fought continually from the Normandy beachhead to the banks of the Elbe River in the heart of Germany.Work Horse of the Western Front is as accurate and honest an account as the writer could make it under the circumstances. Waging war is an exacting business undertaken under conditions which make for confusion and "snafu." The writer has taken the facts as he saw them, the bad as well as the good, with the conviction that he would slight the very real achievements of the Division if he attempted to present a saccharine picture of inevitable triumphs. The measure of a great fighting unit is not that it never runs into difficulties but that it minimizes its errors and gains by experience. By these standards, Old Hickory was a great division-as is evidenced by the caliber of the tasks it was called upon to perform.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786257628

1786257629