A Soldier's Story
NY: Henry Holt, 1951. Rafael Palacios. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth. 5.75"x8.5" 618 indexed pgs. Tan cloth boards w/4 navy stars on front. Red & blue letters to spine. European war map for paste downs. No DJ. Frontispiece of Omar Nelson Bradley in his military uniform. 16 illustrations. 55 maps. Organizational chars. Glossary. Order of the Battle, 12th Army Group. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked. Near Fine. Item #15545
D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the "GI General," was there for every major engagement in the European theater. A Soldier's Story is the behind-the-scenes eyewitness account of the war that shaped our century: the tremendous manpower at work, the unprecedented stakes, the snafus that almost led to defeat, the larger-than-life personalities and brilliant generals (Patton, Eisenhower, Montgomery) who masterminded it all. One of the two books on which the movie Patton was based, A Soldier's Story is a compelling and vivid memoir from the greatest military tactician of our time. Source: Publisher.
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