Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008892594/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 27 of
27
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Fighting in the Great Crusade combines the terse clarity of George E. Schwend's World War II combat journals with Gregory Daddis's expert commentary on the greater context of that conflict. The result is the military work that counterpoints historical and strategic analysis against a foxhole-level view of the war in Europe as U.S. soldiers experienced it." "Schwend's story, which typifies that of young American "citizen soldiers" on whom the Allied cause depended, follows a draftee through the rigors of basic training and Officer Candidate School and into the grim theater of the European campaigns in 1944 and 1945. The young lieutenant's diligent entries initially record quotidian particulars of meals, training, and letters home. The accretion of detail forms a grittily realistic day-to-day account of military life, while Daddis's expansive historical backdrop invests with poignance even such routines as Schwend's faithful attendance at movie screenings as the soldier - and readers - anticipate the fateful Normandy invasion."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12483881.
- catalog contributor b12483882.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Fighting in the Great Crusade combines the terse clarity of George E. Schwend's World War II combat journals with Gregory Daddis's expert commentary on the greater context of that conflict. The result is the military work that counterpoints historical and strategic analysis against a foxhole-level view of the war in Europe as U.S. soldiers experienced it."".
- catalog description ""Schwend's story, which typifies that of young American "citizen soldiers" on whom the Allied cause depended, follows a draftee through the rigors of basic training and Officer Candidate School and into the grim theater of the European campaigns in 1944 and 1945. The young lieutenant's diligent entries initially record quotidian particulars of meals, training, and letters home. The accretion of detail forms a grittily realistic day-to-day account of military life, while Daddis's expansive historical backdrop invests with poignance even such routines as Schwend's faithful attendance at movie screenings as the soldier - and readers - anticipate the fateful Normandy invasion."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 265 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807127574 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Western Front.".
- catalog subject "940.54/21/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "D769.34 43rd .D34 2002".
- catalog subject "Schwend, George Eugene, 1919-1986 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Schwend, George Eugene, 1919-1986.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army Officers Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Artillery operations, American.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western Front.".
- catalog title "Fighting in the Great Crusade : an 8th Infantry artillery officer in World War II / Gregory A. Daddis ; foreword by Russell F. Weigley.".
- catalog type "text".