The ordinary fighting man often paid the price for his generals mistakes. In this book Charles Whiting recreates the combat soldiers world of fifty years ago down to the most intimate detail: their weapons, the food they ate, how they learned to cope with the ever-present threat, how they lived in hope and died in agony. From the beaches of Normandy to the cruel setbacks at Arnhem and the Battle of the Bulge, 44: In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes is the story of early confidence turning to disillusion as the campaign wore onappalling strategic blunders, of strained relations among the Allies, of ideals steadily overtaken by the grim realities of war.
- ISBN10 1580970451
- ISBN13 9781580970457
- Publish Date 21 August 2000 (first published 31 March 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 7 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
- Edition Combined Publishing ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English