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For those who haven't had the pleasure yet, I highly recommend Hal Winton's book, Corps Commanders at the Buldge. It was my beach book this year. It is excellent, and gives the story a whole new perspective. It is very well written and was hard to put down. I recommend it, especially if you have a copy of the West Point Atlas of American Wars handy for the maps.
Roy Shoemaker
Dear Classmates,
For those with a bent toward military history, the University Press of Kansas has just released a book I have been at work on for a good while. The title is Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes. Fundamentally, it tells the story of the Battle of the Bulge from the corps perspective, which, believe it or not, has not until now been done. There are also a few other twists in the book that expand it beyond the corps story. The 6 commanders in question are Leonard T. Gerow, Troy H. Middleton, Matthew B. Ridgway (USMA, April 1917), John Millikin (USMA, 1910), Manton S. Eddy, and J. Lawton Collins (USMA, April 1917).
The book can be ordered from the press, with ordering info at www.kansaspress.ku.edu, or from Amazon.com. The press does not have on-line ordering, but it provides an 800 # and a printable order form. Amazon indicates it will start filling orders o/a 16 March. I have also sent the info on the book to west-point.org and anticipate that it will be posted there soon.
For those of you in the DC area, I'll be at the Society for Military History meeting at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Frederick, Md. from 19-22 April. If any of you can make it to the conference, please let me know before hand so I can be looking for you.
All the very best,
Hal
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