附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273).
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 That's What Soldiers Are Made Of; 2 But the Bible Says; 3 Pride of America; 4 Benning School for Boys; 5 Why We Fight; 6 The School Solution Won't Work; 7 Company of the Line; 8 Go Get ' Em, Infantry; 9 Lock and Load: Scouts Out; 10 We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers; 11 But Can They Fight?; 12 War's Desolation; 13 The South's Incarnate Pride; 14 Give Me the Mountain; 15 Forgive Our Foolish Ways; 16 Blackberries, Chickens, and Courage; 17 The Country for Which It Stands; Afterword; Appendix 1 Morning Report: King Company, 1991.
Appendix 2 The Ninety-fourth Infantry DivisionNote on Sources; A Note for the Digital Edition.
摘要:Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to college for technical training; he somtimes hoped and sometimes feared that the war would end before his training did. Events turned out quite otherwise. A serious shortage of trained riflemen needed for the invasion of Normandy meant that Standifer and more than one hundred thousand other young men were.
