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The battle of hurtgen forest / Charles Whiting.

By: Whiting, Charles [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Pan grand strategy seriesPublisher: London : Pan Books ; c2003Description: xiii, 290 pages : illustrations (black & white), maps ; 19.6 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780330420518 [paperback]Subject(s): Hürtgen Forest, Battle of, Germany, 1944

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Contents: Introduction -- Part one: Into the green hell -- Part two: The death factory -- Part three: Dark December -- Part four: The race for the dams -- Epilogue -- Source notes -- Index.

Summary: "From September 1944 to February '45, in the longest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army, division after division were sent into the Hurtgen Forest on the Belgian-German border. By the time the smoke cleared, nearly 30,000 GIs had been killed or wounded. Whiting makes it painfully clear that the battle of Hurtgen was unnecessary and had more to do with the maintenance of high-level reputations than strategic imperatives. He argues that Hurtgen was the forerunner of an attitude that became pervasive in Vietnam, where "generals were still throwing away the lives of their young soldiers with the same careless abandon." Whiting ( Bloody Aachen ) describes the battle with a sure hand; there is plenty of heroism on these pages, but little glory. As he points out, the only soldier of Hurtgen remembered today is "the one who ran away": Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. Photos." -- Provided by the publisher

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Subject Reference	College Library Subject Reference	940.5421 W58 2003 (Browse shelf)	Available		3UCBL000015001

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction -- Part one: Into the green hell -- Part two: The death factory -- Part three: Dark December -- Part four: The race for the dams -- Epilogue -- Source notes -- Index.

"From September 1944 to February '45, in the longest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army, division after division were sent into the Hurtgen Forest on the Belgian-German border. By the time the smoke cleared, nearly 30,000 GIs had been killed or wounded. Whiting makes it painfully clear that the battle of Hurtgen was unnecessary and had more to do with the maintenance of high-level reputations than strategic imperatives. He argues that Hurtgen was the forerunner of an attitude that became pervasive in Vietnam, where "generals were still throwing away the lives of their young soldiers with the same careless abandon." Whiting ( Bloody Aachen ) describes the battle with a sure hand; there is plenty of heroism on these pages, but little glory. As he points out, the only soldier of Hurtgen remembered today is "the one who ran away": Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. Photos." -- Provided by the publisher