American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and VietnamA sobering chronicle of war as well as a tribute to soldiers' perseverance in the face of its horrors that draws upon soldiers' memoirs, psychological studies, and oral histories to show that-regardless of the enemy, terrain, training, or weaponry-combat soldiers' wartime experiences remain fundamentally the same. |
Contents
Dwellers Beyond the Environment of War | 246 |
Equal Opportunity in the Foxhole | 267 |
Dont Expect Too Much from War | 285 |
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