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"Where Heroes Trained deals with a secretive and highly unusual Army project in World War II. Not a Manhattan Project, but taken nearly as seriously, this was a most interesting sidelight of armored warfare. Caught up in the project were many unwitting GIs who found themselves whisked off to mysterious training bases, introduced to the most powerful tank in the American arsenal, and drilled in one of the war's most imaginative battle tactics. This is oral history as it ought to be done: a truly unusual project with lots of photos, maps and illustrations and-best of all-interviews that have been well edited. Baty and Maddox make even the most commonplace memories of home and camp into absorbing reading. The result is a fascinating look at ordinary American GIs caught up in a strange environment, enmeshed in events they barely understand, and determined to carry it through. Best of all, this is no BS!"
-Ray Puffer,
Historian, Edwards AFB
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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CANDY GLENN
reviewed Where Heroes Trained on June 06, 2019
Where Heroes Trained
I've looked for a good World War I book for many years. Most were so dense or tedious that I gave up, relying more on poetry or novels to get a sense of that horrific time. James Carl Nelson gets to the heart of the American place in the war with this book, written as an homage to his late Grandpa, who was badly wounded in the wheat fields alongside the Paris-Soissons Road outside of Cantigny in June of 1918. James Nelson follows up on the AEF Company D infantry batallion that reflected in its diversity America filled with immigrants who returned to the 'old country' to serve their new country beneath a rain of Hun artillery and gas shells and bullets from the murderous Maxim guns.
The book follows the arc of the war from Company D's beginnings in the Mexican Civil War, then the run up to the draft and deployment in France. Very readable and heartfelt, not too obsessed granular detail of military movements. I'm actually buying a copy to give to a military history buff for Christmas, I enjoyed it so much.
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