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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451874503321

Autore

Pogue Forrest C

Titolo

Pogue's war [[electronic resource] ] : diaries of a WWII combat historian / / Forrest C. Pogue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2001

ISBN

1-283-32751-1

9786613327512

0-8131-7081-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/8173

Soggetti

Military historians - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front

World War, 1939-1945

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Paperback edition 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Pogue's War; Title; Copyright; To Jeannine, with love; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. London in the Spring of 1944; 2. We Learn Top Secrets or We Are BIGOTED; 3. Waiting in Cornwall; 4. Crossing the Channel One Day Late; 5. The Lieutenant John Spaulding Interview; 6. First Days in the Field; 7. First Interviews in the Field; 8. The Last Weeks of June; 9. Writing History for a Change; 10. The Breakout at Saint-LÒ‚; 11. Restless Days at the Rear; 12. Liberated Paris; 13. Last Days in Normandy; 14. Watching Paris Come to Life; 15. Opinion and Politics in Liberated Paris

16. Return to the Field17. The Deadly Forest; 18. The North Flank of the Bulge; 19. Regaining Lost Ground; 20. Battle for the Dam; 21. The Close-Up to the Rhine; 22. Chasing the Armor Across Germany; 23. Another Form of German Culture-Buchenwald; 24. A Non-Sober History of the Meeting with the Russians; 25. Pilzen on VE-Day; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"" 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