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""No Sacrifice Too Great: the 1st Infantry Division in World War II" is the story of how a great Division learned to fight from the summer of 1940 through VE day. Formed on a small core of combat veterans from the Great War, the 1st Infantry Division grew from an understrength, peacetime formation to a highly trained and respected fighting organization. More importantly it sustained tactical excellence in the face of dynamic conditions as it crossed North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany and into Czechoslovakia"--

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""No Sacrifice Too Great: the 1st Infantry Division in World War II" is the story of how a great Division learned to fight from the summer of 1940 through VE day. Formed on a small core of combat veterans from the Great War, the 1st Infantry Division grew from an understrength, peacetime formation to a highly trained and respected fighting organization. More importantly it sustained tactical excellence in the face of dynamic conditions as it crossed North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany and into Czechoslovakia"--
Autorenporträt
Gregory Fontenot is a retired Colonel of the U.S. Army. He is currently a consultant on threat emulation for Army experimentation and a working historian. He was lead author of On Point: The US Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom published by CGSC Press and is the author of The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991, winner of the 2017 Army Historical Foundation award for Unit History, as well as Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge.