04794oam 22009254a 450 991046126960332120211004153052.01-60732-044-41-4571-1054-7(CKB)2670000000099496(EBL)710155(OCoLC)784882799(SSID)ssj0000667357(PQKBManifestationID)12241604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667357(PQKBWorkID)10684132(PQKB)11427157(MiAaPQ)EBC3039805(MiAaPQ)EBC710155(Au-PeEL)EBL3039805(CaPaEBR)ebr10761289(OCoLC)923705086(Au-PeEL)EBL710155(CaPaEBR)ebr11197868(CaONFJC)MIL913750(OCoLC)1273306965(MdBmJHUP)musev2_85358(EXLCZ)99267000000009949620040726d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Boys of WinterLife and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War /Charles J. Sanders1st ed.Boulder :University Press of Colorado,2005.©2005.1 online resource (547 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87081-783-3 0-87081-823-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.Foreword / by John B. Woodward -- The hero of the thunderbolt (Rudy Konieczny) -- The Pied Piper of Pine Lake (Jake Nunnemacher) -- The Sun Valley serenader (Ralph Bromaghin) -- The time of their lives -- Rocky Mountain highs -- From Alaska to Austin -- General Clark and the war in Italy -- Good-byes -- Into the Maelstrom -- The ridges that could not be taken -- The brutal road to Castle d'Aiano -- Rest and recuperation -- The bloodbath of spring -- Bad times -- Pursuit to the Alps -- Home -- Legacy."Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, Charles J. Sanders reveals the stories of these young men. Sanders traces their journeys from childhood to ski championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to bloody battles against the Nazis in the Apennine Mountains of Northern Italy." "Ultimately, The Boys of Winter is the story of how some of America's best and brightest died in the war's last and most desperate battles under General Mark Clark, calling into question the necessity of their sacrifices - and those of thousands of other troops - on the "forgotten" Italian front in the spring of 1945"--Jacket."The Boys of Winter is the true story of three young Depression-era American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and ultimately tragic transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the fabled Tenth Mountain Division. Rudy Konieczny, Jacob Nunnemacher, and Ralph Bromaghin - three skiers from disparate geographic and economic backgrounds - forged names for themselves in the burgeoning sport of snow skiing during the late 1930s. With the world suddenly at war, they found themselves drawn together with several of the world's greatest winter athletes in the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado, where they trained to fight Hitler's troops in the mountains of Europe."Soldiersfast(OCoLC)fst01125233Regimental historiesfast(OCoLC)fst01354209Mountain warfarefast(OCoLC)fst01028323Military campaignsfast(OCoLC)fst01710190Armed ForcesSki troopsfast(OCoLC)fst01982017World War, 1939-1945Mountain warfareSoldiersUnited StatesBiographyWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesUnited StatesWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsItalyUnited StatesfastItalyfastBiographies.History.Biographies.Nonfiction.Electronic books. Soldiers.Regimental histories.Mountain warfare.Military campaigns.Armed ForcesSki troops.World War, 1939-1945Mountain warfare.SoldiersWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesWorld War, 1939-1945Campaigns940.54/451/092273BSanders Charles J(Charles Jeffrey),1958-1045568MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910461269603321The boys of winter2471968UNINA