Research Catalog

Title

The last kilometer : marching to victory in Europe with the Big Red One, 1944-1945 / A. Preston Price.

Author

Price, A. Preston, 1921-

Publication

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

vii, 200 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

"From the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day, A. Preston Price takes us through France, Belgium, Germany, and Czechoslovakia for a riveting, soldier's-eye view of the final phase of fighting in World War II Europe. A young lieutenant with the First Infantry Division (the "Big Red One"), Preston served as an 81-mm mortar forward observer, and he skillfully recreates the realities of combat in an engaging prose style filled with details of his own experience on the rough march to the war's hard-won conclusion. His descriptions of life as an infantryman highlight the plight of the ordinary - though often heroic - soldier as he valiantly battles the enemy while facing his own probable demise."--Jacket.

Subject

• Price, A. Preston, 1921-
• United States. Army > Officers > Biography
• United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st > Biography
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Personal narratives – American
• Biographies.

Note

• "An Association of the U.S. Army book."
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To Europe -- To the Front -- Holding the corner -- The attack -- Waiting on the river -- Roer to the Rhine -- Remagen bridgehead -- The Rose pocket -- The Harz Mountains -- Into Czechoslovakia.

ISBN

1557504342 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001044876

OCLC

• 47930485
• SCSB-11350850

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library