Our Tortured Souls: The 29th Infantry Division in the Rhineland, November - December 1944 - Hardcover

Balkoski, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811711692 ISBN 13: 9780811711692

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2013

Synopsis

"Joseph Balkoski is the top living D-Day historian." --USA Today"Balkoski has fingertip command of his sources, and a sense of the dramatic that never loses touch with the brutal realities of combat." --Dennis Showalter, past president of the Society for Military History and author of Patton and Rommel

From RICK ATKINSON, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Liberation Trilogy" -- "What an achievement! The 29th Infantry Division, specifically, and the U.S. Army generally are lucky to have a historian of Joe Balkoski's stature and skill to tell the tale of combat in Western Europe from the perspective of both the ordinary GI and his leaders."

Continues Balkoski's acclaimed multivolume history of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division in World War II

Covers the division's vital role in the U.S. Army's November offensive, which Gen. Omar Bradley hoped would get the Allies to the Rhine River by Christmas

A riveting story of heroism and tragedy, during which thousands of 29ers became casualties in a campaign that ultimately failed to end the war

Balkoski blends meticulous research with masterful storytelling

About this title

From the Author:

"Our Tortured Souls" is my fourth volume in the 29th Division quintet. It covers the period from November 16, 1944, to December 31, 1944. Volume V, titled "They Who Have Borne the Battle: The 29th Infantry Division Victorious," is in progress now. It will complete the five-volume history of the 29th Division in World War II and carry the 29ers through the last tumultuous months of the war.

About the Author:

Joseph Balkoski is Command Historian of the Maryland National Guard and author of Omaha Beach (978-0-8117-3376-2), Utah Beach (978-0-8117-3377-9), and the classic Beyond the Beachhead (978-0-8117-3237-6). He has appeared as a D-Day expert on MSNBC, and his work has been praised by Joe Scarborough, the New York Post, the Washington Times, em>World War II magazine, and others. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0811711692
• ISBN 13: 9780811711692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400