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The General and His Daughter - The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara (Hardcover)
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The General and His Daughter - The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara (Hardcover)
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel
commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd
Airborne DivisionaAmericaas first airborne division and the first
to fight in World War II. In 1944, aSlim Jima Gavin, as he was
known to his troops, at the age of thirty-seven became the 82ndas
commanding generalathe youngest Army officer to become a major
general since the Civil War. At waras end, this soldieras soldier
had become one of our greatest generalsaand the 82ndas most
decorated officer.Now James Gavinas 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. Written from ship decks, foxholes, and field
tentsaoften just before or after a dangerous jumpathey capture the
day-to-day realities of combat and Gavinas personal reactions to
the war he helped to win. And provide an invaluable self-portrait
of a great general, and a great American, in war and peace.The
bookas more than 200 letters begin at Fort Bragg in 1943 and
continue to December 1945, as Gavin came home to lead the 82nd at
the head of the Victory parade in New York. This correspondence
constitutes the majority of Gavinas private wartime letters, but
except for rare appearances in regimental newsletters, it has never
before been published. In her Introduction, Epilogue, and Notes,
Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy gives a privileged glimpse of the private
man. Edited by Gayle Wurst, the book features historical overviews
by Starlyn Jorgensen, a preface by noted Gavin biographer Gerard M.
Devlin, and a foreword by Rufus Broadaway, Gavinas aide-de-camp.
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