Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian / / Forrest C. Pogue

• Autore: Pogue Forrest C
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/8173
• Soggetto topico: Military historians - United States; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front; World War, 1939-1945
• 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-LÔ; 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Pogue's war
• ISBN: 1-283-32751-1; 9786613327512; 0-8131-7081-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824848103321
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