A foot soldier for Patton: the story of a "Red Diamond" infantryman with the U.S. Third Army

A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II, "A Foot Soldier for Patton" takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy, to the brutal battles on the Westwall in the Ardennes, and finally to the conquest of Germany itself.

  • OCLC #: 276614756
  • ISBN #:
    • 9781932033915
    • 1932033912
  • Call #: D769.3 5thB55 2008
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — D769.31 5 TH .B55 2008
  • Publisher: Drexel Hill, PA : Casemate, 2008.
  • Physical Description: ix, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Contents:
    • Peacetime induction : just a one-year hitch for preparedness
    • Basic training and Southern maneuvers : learning how to soldier
    • Goodbye Mary, hello Iceland : pawns in the politics of war
    • The "FBI" occupies the rock : the fighting bastards of Iceland battle the Arctic wasteland
    • Underpaid, undersexed, and over there : training with our cousins across the pond
    • "Lafayette, we are here," again! : bloody combat in the Normandy hedgerows
    • Patton and the dash across France : winning the war in record time and making it look easy
    • Metz the meat grinder : paying the price for Patton's folly
    • The forgotten 5th in the Battle of the Bulge : fighting and freezing in Luxembourg
    • The push into Germany : breaching the West Wall and wasting time in the Ruhr
    • War's end : adding points and avoiding final opportunities for getting killed.