New York, N.Y. The Viking Press, 1981. Third Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xv, [3], 376, [6] pages.Some cover and edge soiling. Footnotes. Includes 22 black and white maps; a Foreword, an Introduction, and an Index; and chapters on 1942, Sicily; Italy; Normandy; Holland; The Winter War; Spring of 1945; and Berlin in Retrospect. An odyssey, beginning in Casablanca, the 82nd Airborne's journey follows the road to Berlin, via Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Holland, the Ardennes, crossing the Elbe and the final Allied victory parade up Unter Den Linden in the heart of Berlin. the shock, the confusion and violence of battle from the level of the fighting man to the strategic controversy over the taking of Berlin before the Russians. This is the heroic saga of the 82nd Airborne Division. Led by their fighting general, James M. Gavin, the men of the famous 82nd parachuted into the deadly skies over Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, and Nijmegen in the ill-fated "Bridge Too Far" encounter. Gavin and his men were among the infantry that fought the bloody Winter War of the Bulge and marched victoriously across Germany to meet the Russians in Berlin. Now this unforgettable chapter in the story of World War II is told by Gavin himself, a heroic general who believed that to lead, one must be up front, in the heart of the action. And he was. More