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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. DETAILS: attractive copy, very good to near fine red cloth, but with mild vertical indentation along spine from opening. SYLVAN, WILLIAM C. / SMITH, FRANCIS G. Normandy to victory: the war diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army. William C. Sylvan and Francis G. Smith, Jr. ; edited by John T. Greenwood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008, 1st printing number line 54321, xi, 575pp., . Series: American warriors (Lexington, Ky.) Hodges, Courtney H., 1887-1966; - An edited version of the First Army's daily war diary, maintained for General Courtney H. Hodges by his aides, covering the First Army's activities from the invasion of Normandy to the surrender of Germany in 1945. - CONTENTS: The invasion of France and the lodgment in Normandy, 2 June-24 July 1944 -- Operation Cobra and the breakthrough at St. Lô, 25-31 July 1944 -- Exploitation of the St. Lô breakthrough, 1 August-12 September 1944 -- The Battle of Germany, 13 September-15 December 1944 -- The German counteroffensive and the drive to the Roer River, 16 December 1944-22 February 1945 -- Crossing the Roer River, 23-28 February 1945 -- Crossing the Rhine River, 1-24 March 1945 -- Exploitation of the Remagen Bridgehead, 25 March-18 April 1945 -- Final operations, 19 April-7 May 1945 -- Appendix: Locations of the First U.S. Army command posts, 9 June 1944-14 May 1945. ISBN 9780813125251. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ Near Fine. 1st Printing.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army. Book.

Condizione: New. The war diary of General Courtney Hicks Hodges begins on June 2, 1944, as Hodges and the U.S. First Army prepare for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France.&Uumlber den AutorJohn T. Greenwood, retired Chief of t.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - During World War II, U.S. Army generals often maintained diaries of their activities and the day-to-day operations of their command. These diaries have proven to be invaluable historical resources for World War II scholars and enthusiasts alike. Until now, one of the most historically significant of these diaries, the one kept for General Courtney H. Hodges of the First U.S. Army, has not been widely available to the public. Maintained by two of Hodges's aides, Major William C. Sylvan and Captain Francis G. Smith Jr., this unique military journal offers a vivid, firsthand account detailing the actions, decisions, and daily activities of General Hodges and the First Army throughout the war.The diary opens on June 2, 1944, as Hodges and the First Army prepare for the Allied invasion of France. In the weeks and months that follow, the diary highlights the crucial role that Hodges's often undervalued command--the first to cross the German border, the first to cross the Rhine, the first to close to the Elbe--played in the Allied operations in northwest Europe. The diary recounts the First Army's involvement in the fight for France, the Siegfried Line campaign, the Battle of the Bulge, the drive to the Roer River, and the crossing of the Rhine, following Hodges and his men through savage European combat until the German surrender in May 1945.Popularly referred to as the 'Sylvan Diary,' after its primary writer, the diary has previously been available only to military historians and researchers, who were permitted to use it at only the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the U.S. Army Center for Military History, or the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Retired U.S. Army historian John T. Greenwood has now edited this text in its entirety and added a biography of General Hodges as well as extensive notes that clarify the diary's historical details. Normandy to Victory provides military history enthusiasts with valuable insights into the thoughts and actions of a leading American commander whose army played a crucial role in the Allied successes of World War II.…