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The Winter Army

লেখক / Author: Maurice Isserman

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION'S ULLR AWARD, the epic true story of the US Army�s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy�s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory. At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions?and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in contrast, had many well-trained and battle-hardened mountain divisions, some of whom by 1943 blocked the Allied advance in the Italian campaign. In a unique chapter of WWII history, the US Army started from scratch to develop a unique military fighting force, the 10th Mountain Division, drawn from the ranks of civilian skiers, mountaineers, and others with outdoor experience. The resulting mix of…

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pages: 318

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781328871435

ISBN-10: 1328871436