The General and His Daughter : The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara.
Title:
The General and His Daughter : The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara.
Author:
Fauntleroy, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780823246915
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Series:
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
Contents:
Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Foreward -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: The Call to War -- Chapter 2: Operation Husky--North Africa -- Chapter 3: Operation Husky--Sicily -- Chapter 4: Operation Avalanche--Italy -- Chapter 5: Operation Overlord/Neptune--United Kingdom -- Chapter 6: Operation Neptune--Normandy -- Chapter 7: Command of the 82nd Airborne Division -- Chapter 8: Operation Market-Garden--Holland -- Chapter 9: The Battle of the Bulge--Belgium -- Chapter 10: Cracking the Siegfried Line--Germany -- Chapter 11: A Brief Respite--France -- Chapter 12: Back on the Line--The Final Fight -- Chapter 13: Victory, Russian Camaraderie, and a Visit Home -- Chapter 14: Occupation Duty--Berlin -- Chapter 15: The Call Home -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Others books in the World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension Series.
Abstract:
James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division-America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, Slim JimGavin, as he was known to his troops, at the age of thirty-seven became the 82nd's commanding general-the youngest Army officer to become a major general since the Civil War. At war's end, this soldier's soldier had become one of our greatest generals-and the 82nd's most decorated officer.Now James Gavin's letters home to his nine-year-old daughter Barbara provide a revealing portrait of the American experience in World War II through the eyes of one of its most dynamic officers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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