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The Big Red One : America's legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm
- Title
- The Big Red One : America's legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm / James Scott Wheeler.
- Author
- Wheeler, James Scott.
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | UA27.5 1st .W485 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 594 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Modern war studies
- Subject
- United States. Infantry Division, 1st > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-584) and index.
- Contents
- Lafayette, we are here : creation of the 1st Infantry Division -- Cantigny to Soissons -- Victory in Alsace-Lorraine : St. Mihiel and the Meuse Argonne -- Between the world wars : the twenty-year peace -- Mobilization for war : the expansion and training of the Big Red One, 1939 to November 1942 -- Tunisia : the division comes of age -- Offensive operations : Gafsa to victory in Africa -- The invasion of Sicily -- Operation Overlord -- Crusade in Europe : the drive to Germany -- The battles of the German frontier -- The last offensive against Germany : January to May 1945 -- The occupation of Germany and the Cold War -- The Vietnam War and the Big Red One : deployment and first battles -- The year of decision? : the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam, 1967 -- Tet and the light at the end of the tunnel -- Conclusion : The journey continues.
- ISBN
- 9780700615520 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0700615520 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007028880
- OCLC
- ocn153580069
- SCSB-1453229
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library