![]() "The officers and men of Old Hickory were the product of a civilian army, well trained by competent officers into a cohesive fighting machine that outsmarted the best of the German Army’s elite divisions. Marshall the “most outstanding infantry division in the European Theater of Operations (ETO)” during the entire war. "The 30th Infantry Division, named “Old Hickory” and code-named “Custom,” was called by historian S. people into far more fiercely anti German than the horror evoked by the exposing of extermination camps.įoreword introduces the topic, and the Introduction takes it further:. soldiers who had fought and surrendered, would turn the U.S. This part is hardly ever spoken about, perhaps as a matter of policy, because immediately after the war and even as Nuremberg trials were proceeding, cold war was on, and any public knowledge about the Malmédy massacre by the S.S., of eighty U.S. One point a reader here might begin to notice unless a professional historian, is that most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge are usually centred around Bastogne, which is well deserved, of course, but here one reads about other just as well deserved battles and encounters, and begins to know of other important points that the Battle of the Bulge was fought around - Stavelot, for example - and most of all, Baugnez and Malmédy. This is even more true about the Battle of the Bulge, which the 30th Division was involved in, so all in all there is much to look forward to as one begins, and more so later.īut - having built up the anticipation - Battle of the Bulge precedes Operation Market Garden. The first two pages of chapter six describe next moves, after capture of Aachen, planned by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Montgomery - with some objections by General Patton noted - and the differences they had to anyone whos watched A Bridge Too Far, mentioned in this book before in previous chapters, what's coming is anticipated, and so such a reader expects more details of Operation Market Garden at that point. ![]() ![]() In more ways than the obvious one, this work can be - it is in every way but official, in that authors differ - a sequel to The Longest Day, the famous one about D-Day, which was made into a film as well. ![]()
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