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Title: The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe by MCKAY JENKINS ISBN: 0-375-50771-X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Splendid History of the 10th
Comment: McKay Jenkins' The Last Ridge is the latest in a series of books about World War II where we see the war from the viewpoint of those who fought it.
The 10th's story is a familiar one unless you've never heard it. The brainchild of "Minnie" Dole (no relation to later 10th Member and future senator Robert Dole) who struggled against the stodgy Army bureaucracy before gaining General Marshall's ear. Marshall, seeing that mountain troops were being used by all the belligerent armies, decided that a Mountain unit would be useful to the U.S. Army. So the 87th Mountain Regiment was born. Later, the 85th and 86th Regiments were added and thus, the 10th Mountain Division was born. After over two years of rigorous training, they finally saw action in Italy in 1945. Passed over by Ike's Chief of Staff Walter Bedell Smith, Mark Clark, the commander of the Allied field armies in Italy snapped up the 10th. It was one of his greatest moves.
The 10th, in a series of daring maneuvers and risky night climbing seized enemy held ridges and finished 114 days in combat suffering higher casualty percentages than other divisions.
Jenkins' book views the 10th's actions from both the high command and the soldiers who did the fighting. He mainly sticks to the fighting men for most of the book. Minor errors creep into the text. General Truscott's first name was Lucian, not Lucien and it's General Walter Bedell Smith, not just Bedell.
Still, it's a solid, fast moving story and a first rate war adventure. Recommended
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Title: Climb to Conquer : The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops by Peter Shelton ISBN: 0743226062 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: I Soldiered With America's Elite 10th Mountain Division of Ww II by Carl V. Cossin ISBN: 0759637911 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Combat Jump : The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943 by Ed Ruggero ISBN: 0060088753 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Burma Road : The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II by Donovan Webster ISBN: 0374117403 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: North Apennines and Beyond With the 10th Mountain Division: With the 10th Mountain Division by Harris Dusenbery, Wilson P. Ware, Binford & Mort Publishing ISBN: 0832305227 Publisher: Binford & Mort Pub Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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