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Pogue's War - Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian (Paperback, New edition)
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Pogue's War - Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian (Paperback, New edition)
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" With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D.
Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the
greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in
Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume
biography of General George C. Marshall. But, as Pogue's War makes
clear, he was also a pioneer in the development of oral history in
the twentieth century, as well as an impressive interviewer with an
ability to relate to people at all levels, from the private in the
trenches to the general carrying four stars. Pogue's War is drawn
from Forrest Pogue's handwritten pocket notebooks, carried with him
throughout the war, long regarded as unreadable because of his
often atrocious handwriting. Pogue himself began expanding the
diaries a few short years after the war, with the intent of
eventual publication. At last this work is being published.
Supplemented with carefully deciphered and transcribed selections
from his diaries, the heart of the book is straight from the field.
Much of the material has never before seen print. From D-Day to
VE-Day, Pogue experienced and documented combat on the front lines,
describing action on Omaha Beach, in the Huertgen Forest, and on
other infamous fields of conflict. He not only graphically -- yet
also often poetically -- recounts the extreme circumstances of
battle, but he also notes his fellow soldiers' innermost thoughts,
feelings, opinions, and attitudes about the cruelty of war. As a
trained historian, Pogue describes how he went about his work and
how the Army's history program functioned in the European Theater
of Operations. His entries from his time at the history
headquarters in Paris show the city in the early days after the
liberation in a unique light. Pogue's War has an immediacy that
much official history lacks, and is a remarkable addition to any
World War II bookshelf. Franklin D. Anderson, Forrest Pogue's
nephew by marriage, is a longtime educator. He lives in Princeton,
Kentucky.
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