Rapport, Leonard, and Northwood, Arthur, Jr.
Sweetwater, TN: 101st Airborne Division Association Headquarters, c1972. Second Edition [stated]. Enlarged Edition [stated] Date per page v. Hardcover. xxix, [3], 830, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes (including in part The Honor Roll, Battle Credits, Airborne Songs and Poems, and Abbreviations) DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. DJ as Association sticker on front flap. Book has some edge soiling. Title page as Association sticker in publisher's location. The Active Division Chapter is by Judson J. Conner. Includes over 100 maps and dozens of illustrations. New York Times review: “For sheer adventure few writers of fiction surpass this real-life, name-and-date story of men bound together in a combat outfit.” “The 101st Airborne Division, which was activated on August 16, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, has no history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny…” Maj.-Gen. William Lee commanding officer 1942. Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of the 101st Airborne Division, is unique among military histories. Never before has such a detailed study been made of the organization, training and operations of a single division of the United States Army. Each action in which the Division took part has been minutely studied and checked against available operations reports and the memories of the men who were there. From the beaches of Normandy to Hitler’s Berchtesgaden hideaway the 101st Airborne fought their way across Nazi-Occupied Europe to Victory. Leonard A. Rapport was an archivist for the National Archives. Before the war, Northwood worked with Time, Inc. He jumped into Europe with the 101st Airborne Division, and later coauthored the Division's official history, titled "Rendezvous with Destiny." More