The sword of St. Michael : the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II /

The sword of St. Michael : the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	LoFaro, Guy.
Imprint:	Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2011.
Description:	xiii, 746 p., [25] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Army. -- Airborne Division, 82nd. United States. -- Army. -- Airborne Division, 82nd. World War -- (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front. World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. Military operations, Aerial -- American. Military campaigns. Regimental histories. United States. Western Front (World War (1939-1945)) Personal narratives -- American.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8509009

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Sword of Saint Michael
ISBN:	9780306820236 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0306820234 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780306820243 (e-book) 0306820242 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Table of Equivalent Ranks
Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1. Our Whole Future is in the Air
Chapter 2. A Breed Apart
Chapter 3. Men of a Particularly High Order
Chapter 4. A Whole New Dimension to Soldiering
Chapter 5. A Small Phalanx in a Vast, Strange Land
Chapter 6. A Self-Adjusting Foul-up
Chapter 7. A Very Rugged Delivery
Chapter 8. Taking off for the Gates of Hell
Chapter 9. A Force upon which the Fifth Army could Depend
Chapter 10. A Terrible and Handsome Sight
Chapter 11. Alles Kaputt! The Americans are Killing Everybody!
Chapter 12. You Crossed that Causeway
Chapter 13. Can't Anything Stop those Men?
Chapter 14. A Lasting and Firm Faith in the Airborne
Chapter 15. We'll need Two Divisions to do that
Chapter 16. A Sunday Drive in an Airplane
Chapter 17. The Germans were Everywhere
Chapter 18. The Finest Division in the World Today
Chapter 19. Even the Gods were Weeping
Chapter 20. You are Looking at the Survivors
Chapter 21. To Turn the Tide
Chapter 22. Singing the Blues about the Right Flank
Chapter 23. Making Monkeys out of the Germans
Chapter 24. Another Nasty Job
Chapter 25. Present at the End
Epilogue: Soldiers Recently Engaged in War
Notes
Bibliography
Index