American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam - Hardcover

Kindsvatter, Peter S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700612297 ISBN 13: 9780700612291

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2003

Synopsis

The first book to bring together wartime experiences from the centuries four major conflicts recreates the exhaustion, emotional pain, bitterness, bravery, and comradship that has marked the American military experience.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A superb, compelling analysis of twentieth-century American combat troops that never loses sight of the individual soldier. An important, meticulously documented contribution to our under-standing of men-at-arms.--Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn and The Long Gray Line

Kindsvatter's book is based firmly on the first-hand accounts of combat by American soldiers and Marines of the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. He is a sensitive, skillful mediator between those writers and us.--Russell F. Weigley, author of The American Way of War

A vivid portrayal of the savagery of war and its human dimensions.--Michael D. Doubler, author of Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945

About the Author:

Peter S. Kindsvatter served in the U.S. Army for twenty-one years and retired as an Armor lieutenant colonel. He is the Command Historian at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and Schools, Aberdeen Proving Ground.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0700612297
• ISBN 13: 9780700612291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432