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Bunker Hill to Bastogne : elite forces and American society

Title: Bunker Hill to Bastogne : elite forces and American society / Briton Cooper Busch.
Author: Busch, Briton Cooper.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Bunker Hill to Bastogne is a unique and timely chronicle of the birth and evolution of elite forces and the American public's reactions to them. It shows that despite Americans' wariness of a possible military elite, their love of the fabled rifleman-ranger has seldom dwindled, though in the twenty-first century their hero might wear a green beret or night-vision goggles rather than a coonskin cap."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.

Contents

1. The colonial tradition -- 2. The Revolutionary War -- 3. The early republic -- 4. The Civil War -- 5. From the Civil War to World War II -- 6. The United States Marine Corps -- 7. World War II : the early formations -- 8. World War II : the later war -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

1574887750 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005054497
9781574887754

OCLC

OCM62084460
SCSB-5243048

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries