The GI War
New York, N.Y. Avon Books, 1968. First Avon Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 498, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations Cover has wear, creasing and soiling. Some page soiling. Includes Author's Note and Acknowledgments, as well as chapters on Home Front, The Beginning, England, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany, The Pacific, Epilogue, and Maps of the Western Mediterranean Theatre, Pacific Theatre, and Western European Theatre. This is not the war of the officers of of grand strategy. This is the war of the men who fought it--The Enlisted Men. It is a book that brings vividly to life the experience of the Fighting Men of World War II. This book concerns itself completely with the American enlisted man in World War II. The G.I. experience of World War 2 in words, photographs, drawings, and cartoons. Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995). In the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Army weekly magazine, Yank. In 1945, Martin began working as editor for Newsweek and The New Republic. Ralph Martin wrote in the Author's Note that most of the material comes from my own experiences and reportage as a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes and Yank, The Army Weekly. For the rest, I relief on extensive interviews, combat reports, diaries, letters and personal histories. All of the material in the epilogue was based on a year's travel through the country shortly after the war. The reach is for the whole war--not just the combat men, who were few, but the men in the rear, who were many. This is just not a memory book of a war that was. Condition: Good.
Keywords: United States Army, GI, G.I., Soldier, Home Front, D-Day. St. Lo, Battle of the Bulge, Bataan Death March, Siegfried Line, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Airpower, Submarines, PT Boats, Battle of Midway
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