The storied history of the US Army's elite 10th Mountain Division
is presented here in precise detail by Dennis Chapman, a former
officer in the division. The reader will first learn of the
outfit's 1943 activation, then the dramatic story of their famous
WWII Italian campaign. After successfully storming the
near-vertical slope of Riva Ridge (thought unclimbable by their
German opponents) and then seizing the strategic heights of the
Mount Belvedere massif, the men of the 10th Mountain Division
battered their way through the Apennine Mountains. Breaking out
into the Po Valley, the 10th Mountain Division raced across the
lowlands to the foot of the Austrian Alps, slamming the door shut
on thousands of retreating Axis troops. The reader will also learn
about the heroism of the 10th Mountain Division troops at the
Battle of the Black Sea in Mogadishu-the famous story of "Black
Hawk Down"-as well as its exploits during the early years of the
global war on terror. Unlike most books of its kind, this book goes
beyond those famous exploits, bringing together all the threads of
the division's history. Chapman also recounts the history of the
10th Mountain Division in its Cold War incarnations at Fort Riley,
Kansas, and in Germany. He also tells the story of the 87th
Infantry Regiment, the last remaining of the division's three
original regiments, and the only element of the division to
continue in existence from the division's deactivation in 1958
until its reactivation in 1985.
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