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Unsung Valor: A GI's Story of World War II
Harrison, A. Cleveland Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. Univ Pr of Mississippi 2000 1578062144 / 9781578062140 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine
; 355 pages; First Edition/First Printing; Black & white photographs; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Maps on endpapers; Deep-blue boards with beige-cloth covered spine & title in blue; Bright pictorial dust-jacket with no tears and minimal shelf and edge wear; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable clear mylar cover; . (Harrison's memoir describes the training in the Ninety-fourth Infantry Division in the U.S., their first combat holding action at Lorient, France, and the division's race to join Patton's Third Army, where Harrison's company was decimated and he was wounded during an attack on the Siegfried Line. Later reassigned to the U.S. Group Control Council, he also had a unique opportunity to observe both the highest echelons in military government, and the ordinary soldiers as Allied troops occupied Berlin, with this memoir revealing all aspects of military life. Harrison's firsthand account is the full history of what happened to him in three units from 1943 to 1946, disclosing the sensibilities, the conflicting emotions, and the humor that coalesced within the naive draftee, with him detailing the induction, basic training procedures, student experiences in Army pre-engineering school, infantry training, overseas combat, battle wounds and the complete medical pipeline of hospitalization and recovery, waits in replacement depots, life in the Army of Occupation, and his discharge.)
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17.33 USD
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