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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460225003321

Autore

Russell Henry Dozier <1889-1972, >

Titolo

The purge of the Thirtieth Division / / Maj. Gen. Henry Dozier Russell ; edited by Lawrence M. Kaplan ; foreword by Michael D. Doubler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-87021-074-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/1273

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States

Generals - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - United States

World War, 1939-1945

Electronic books.

United States National Guard Officers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Straws in the wind -- War days at Fort Jackson -- The Tennessee Maneuvers -- Back at Fort Jackson -- The Carolina Maneuvers -- The beginning of the end -- The trial -- In Washington -- After us -- Where do we go from here?.

Sommario/riassunto

The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army in the critical months leading up to its entry into World War II. Through Russell, the reader gains insight into the vast cultural differences between the Regular Army and the National Guard at the time.Russell's memoir offer an invaluable source of a commander's first-hand account of how his div