Hell on Wheels: The 2d Armored Division by Donald E. Houston - 1977

Presidio Press, 1977. Hardback. Very Good. 2nd Printing (Presidio - 1979) VERY GOOD in very good dust jacket. No marks in text. Light foxing on edges. Binding is tight and square. xxii, 466 pages : illustrations, maps. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Creating an idea -- 2.) The Fort Benning era -- 3.) The Tennessee maneuvers -- 4.) The Louisiana maneuvers -- 5.) The Carolina maneuvers -- 6.) Preparation for war -- 7.) Operation TORCH -- 8.) North African interlude -- 9.) Operation HUSKY -- 10.) The Sicilian-English intermission -- 11.) The Contentin peninsula -- 12.) Inch by inch -- 13.) Mile after mile -- 14.) Breaching the Siegfried line -- 15.) Operation QUEEN -- 16.) The Battle of the Bulge: Blunting the German spearhead -- 17.) The Battles of the Bulge: Reducing the salient -- 18.) The near miss -- 19.) The race for Berlin -- 20.) A backward glance ----- * AFTERWORD: Gen George S. Patton, IV -- * APPENDICES: a.) Division Commanders -- b.) Division Award -- c.) Division Statistics -- Biographical Essay -- * Index