AMATEURS AT WAR: the American Soldier in Action

by Williams, Ben Ames; ed

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1943. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. + sources. `Concerned with fighting qualities of Americans...first-hand eyewitness accounts of...hotly-contested actions in which Americans have fought'--from American Revolution (Concord, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Bon Homme Richard, etc.); The Alamo; American Civil War (First Manassas, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Monitor vs. Merrimac, Antietam, Gettysburg, etc.) WW-1 (Marne, Soissons, Argonne); WW-2 to 1943 (in a hunted sub, on PT boats, Flying Forts over France, attacked convoy to Murmansk, Marines on Guadalcanal, Report from the Solomons, etc.). ||| Prtd. before end of WW-2, Korea `police action,' Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq...