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Full title: 'Historical Records of the 14th Regiment Now The Prince
of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) from Its Formation in 1689
to 1892'.
Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd
Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah Henry Holleman served with the
89th Division all the way into Germany, liberating a concentration
camp. Nurse Mary A. Breeding, five feet tall, and 100 pounds,
served with the 174th General Hospital in France. Dr. Vincent
Stephen Conti was awarded a Bronze Star for fighting typhus in
Naples, Italy. These accounts and 31 others covering the heroics of
44 individuals working in the Medical Corps are gathered here by
editor Patricia W. Sewell. Firsthand accounts are given by doctors,
nurses, ambulance drivers, front-line medics, Navy corpsmen,
medical personnel who served on air evacuation teams and hospital
ships, and others who functioned in many different capacities.
Autobiographies, interviews, letters and cassette tapes helped
compose most of these narratives.
This work focuses on the all black 92nd Infantry Division in the
Italian Campaign in World War II and the poor combat performance of
the division in Italy. An introduction provides an overall view of
the Italian Campaign and the role of the 92nd Infantry Division.
The author then examines the reasons for the division's troubles on
and off the battlefield, such as the low morale among the soldiers
because of racial segregation, the limited facilities provided for
them, and their lack of trust in their leadership. All of these
issues are explored at length. Information on the early life and
military training and experience of General Ned Almond is provided,
along with the stories of Vernon Baker and John Fox, who emerged as
leaders but endured a long struggle for recognition. The author
concludes this work on a personal note by telling of his
involvement as principal investigator of Acting Secretary of the
Army John Shannon's study of why no African American received the
Medal of Honor in World War II (a situation that was rectified in
the late 1990s: See Elliott V. Converse, Daniel K. Gibran et al.,
The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World
War II, McFarland 1997).
California Sabers is the story of the California Battalion and
Hundred, a group of 500 select men who were the only organized
group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War.
They volunteered their enlistment bounty to pay their passage
across Panama and on to
Massachusetts, where they became the cadre of the Second
Massachusetts Cavalry.
From mid-1863 to July 1864, the Second Massachusetts fought a
bloody guerilla war in northern Virginia against John S. Mosby, the
confederacy s "Gray Ghost." In July 1864 the regiment became part
of Sheridan s Army of the Shenandoah, and that fall it played a
major role in the decisive battles of Winchester, Toms Run, and
Cedar Creek.
In early 1865 the regiment was in the column that marched across
Virginia destroying the vital railroad and canal that carried
supplies from the Shenandoah Valley to the besieged Army of
Northern Virginia. In late March, the Second Massachusetts was in
the forefront of the battles at Dinwiddie Courthouse and Five
Forks, the two actions that finally broke the stalemate at
Petersburg and forced Lee to retreat to the west. In the ensuing
chase, the regiment was the part of the cavalry spearhead that
finally blocked Lee s army at Appomattox Courthouse.
This work, based on extensive research, is the first
comprehensive history of this relatively unknown group and will be
of great interest to Civil War enthusiasts and historians."
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The Lost Battalion
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Thomas M. Johnson, Fletcher Pratt; Introduction by Edward M. Coffman
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For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of
America's involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the
Lost Battalion out of the national memory with its own scenes of
horror and heroism, mention of the unit's name summoned up what
America admired in its soldiers: unpretentious courage, dogged
resistance, and good cheer and adaptation under adversity. Thomas
M. Johnson was a newspaperman and author who covered World War I.
Fletcher Pratt was a historian and prolific author. Edward M.
Coffman is a professor emeritus of history at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison and the author of several books, including The
War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War
I.
Christian Samito writes in his introduction: "In reading Guiney's
words, one can have a fuller appreciation of what motivated
civilians to volunteer to fight a war and of the privations they
suffered in service to their country." These are the collected
Civil War letters of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant from
Country Tipperary who relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. When the
Civil War broke out, Guiney volunteered to defend the Union and,
quickly rose from First Lieutenant to Colonel, to command the ninth
Massachusetts regiment. A fervent supporter of Lincoln and
passionately opposed to slavery, Guiney felt that, in his service
to his new country, he was doing his part to gain freedom for the
slaves. Being politically outspoken, Guiney was often criticized
for his views by other Irish-Americans. His letters reveal not only
the experiences and thoughts of an Irish Catholic soldier, but also
the hidden tensions within his immigrant community. His views and
observations not only illuminate his personal independence of
thought, but also the political landscape which he tried to
improve.
From Thermopylae to Belfast, elite military formations have been
deployed against conventional or irregular forces. This study
offers a superb analysis of elites in military history. A
collection of brilliant studies by distinguished scholars, it
illuminates, through a combination of overview and case study, a
historical subject that has profound implications for the
development of specialized forces in the post-Cold War Era. The
study uses a comparative approach which investigates the topic over
time and across culture.
The King's German Legion was the largest and most respected of the
foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British
Army during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). The light and heavy
cavalry, light and line infantry, and horse and foot artillery of
the KGL made major contributions to Wellington's victories during
the Peninsular War, and several units covered themselves with glory
at Waterloo. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the KGL
from its origins to its disbandment, including its uniforms,
weapons, flags and standards. Meticulous illustrations offer
unprecedented details of this impressive fighting force.
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