From Anzio to the Alps :an American soldier's story
- 作者: Wells, Lloyd M.
- 出版: Columbia : University of Missouri Press ©2004.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Soldiers United States -- Biography. , Autobiography , MilitaryWorld War II. , Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 , World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American. , Autobiographies. , Military campaigns. , Wells, Lloyd M. (Lloyd Manning), 1919-2000. , Biographies. , Personal Narrative , Campaigns , Historical. , Personal narratives. , Soldiers. , HISTORY Military -- World War II. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , Campagnes et batailles , 1939 - 1945 , Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Campagnes et batailles -- Italie. , Histoire des unités , World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories -- United States. , Récits personnels. , United States. Army. Armored Infantry Regiment, 6th. , World War, 1939-1945 , Electronic books. , Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Histoire des unités -- États-Unis. , Regimental histories , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. , HISTORY , Regimental histories. , Italy. , World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns -- Italy. , Wells, Lloyd M. , Personal narratives American. , United States. , Soldiers
- ISBN: 0826262430 , 9780826262431
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- 附註: In the beginning there was basic training -- Ninety-day wonder -- Innocent abroad -- Mt. Porchia: the legacy of a battle -- Cassino, January 1944 -- Anzio: the German counterattack, February 1944 -- Anzio: stalemate, March-April 1944 -- Anzio: breakout and holiday -- Pontedera: close encounters of a dangerous kind -- Bombiana and Porretta Terme -- Winter 1945 -- Holding the high ground -- The last offensive: eight days in the mountains -- The last offensive: twelve days in the valley -- That Italian spring, May-June 1945 -- The end of everything.
- 摘要: "This work is Lloyd M. Wells's firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events." "In June 1941, the twenty-one-year-old Wells was drafted into the army. He was commissioned second lieutenant after he attended OCS and was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star." "Wells offers the reader information that has never before been provided. He tells exactly what happened to 2/7 Queens on the night of Februrary 21, 1944, when the troops came up to "the caves" at Anzio. He also depicts what happened during the last offensive in Italy and what armored infantry troops experienced on the perimeter of the attack. This book, however, is not just a story of battle actions. It is a personal story about the "old Army" and how young soldiers were transformed by it during one of the greatest upheavals in world history."--Jacket
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This compelling work is Lloyd M. Wells’s firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events. In June 1941, the twenty-one-year-old Wells was drafted into the army. He was commissioned second lieutenant after he attended O.C.S. and was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star. Wells offers the reader information that has never before been provided. He tells exactly what happened to 2/7 Queens on the night of February 21, 1944, when the troops came up to “the caves” at Anzio. He also depicts what happened during the last offensive in Italy and what armored infantry troops experienced on the perimeter of the attack. This book, however, is not just a story of battle actions. It is a personal story about the “old Army” and how young soldiers were transformed by it during one of the greatest upheavals in world history. Wells’s goal in writing this book was to leave behind “an account of a simpler time and of the funny, sad, terrorizing, and tender moments of a war which, with the death of each man or woman who lived through it, recedes just a little bit further into the nation’s past.” He accomplished that and so much more.
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