Draftee Division: The 88th Infantry Division in World War II

LIKE NEW in a like new dust jacket. Appears unread. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Draftee Divisions: The Historical Roots -- 2.) Personnel and Personnel Utilization: Bureaucratic Roulette -- 3.) Training: Honing the Edge -- 4.) Logistics: The Strongest Card -- 5.) The Movement Overseas: Keeping the Edge -- 6.) Minturno: Baptism by Fire -- 7.) Diadem: The First Three Days -- 8.) Minturno to Rome: The Pursuit -- 9.) Rome to the Alps and Beyond -- * APPENDICES: a.) Cumulative Personnel-Induced Training Time Losses -- b.) The Mythos of Wehrmacht Superiority: Colonel Dupuy Reconsidered. . . . . . . . . FROM THE DUST JACKET FRONT FLAP: The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, *fought like wildcats* and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions.

Product Info

ISBN: 0813115817

ISBN-13: 9780813115818

Publisher: Univ Press of Kentucky

Year: 1986

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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