Mitchell Yockelson

Gebundenes Buch

The Paratrooper Generals

Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy

Beschreibung

The Paratrooper Generals is the first book to explore in depth the significant role these two division commanders played on D-Day, describing the extraordinary courage and leadership they demonstrated throughout the most important American campaign of World War II.

Autor

Mitchell A. Yockelson is a military historian and archivist who has received the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award. His books include Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 and Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I, as well as introductory biographies of Ulysses Grant and Douglas MacArthur. A former professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, he is an investigative archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stackpole Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 238mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780811738552
• ISBN-10: 0811738558
• Artikelnr.: 57638185