This book - Volume III of "The Greatest War" trilogy chronicling the American combat experience in the Second World War - should be read and cherished by any reader who (like myself) has/had a parent or relative who served in the U.S. military during the war. What is more: any reader with an interes...
Gerald Astor was one of the country's best military historians. This particular book, replete with the oral histories of several veterans who had served in the earliest campaigns waged by the U.S. in the Second World War, brings alive the sense of shock, despair, defeat, and hope that typified those...