TY - BOOK AU - Pogue,Forrest C. TI - Pogue's war: diaries of a WWII combat historian SN - 0813122163 (alk. paper) AV - D811.P566 A3 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Pogue, Forrest C. KW - Military historians KW - United States KW - Diaries KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Western Front KW - Personal narratives, American N1 - Includes index; London in the spring of 1944 -- We learn top secrets or we are bigoted -- Waiting in Cornwall -- Crossing the Channel one day late -- The Lieutenant John Spaulding interview -- First days in the field -- First interviews in the field -- The last weeks of June -- Writing history for a change -- The breakout at Saint-Lô -- Restless days at the rear -- Liberated Paris -- Last Days in Normandy -- Watching Paris come to life -- Opinion and politics in liberated Paris -- Return to the field -- The deadly forest -- The North flank of the bulge -- Regaining lost ground -- Battle for the dam -- The close-up to the Rhine -- Chasing the armor across Germany -- Another form of German culture: Buchenwald -- A non-sober history of the meeting with the Russians -- Pilzen on VE-Day ER -