Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian / Forrest C. Pogue.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.Description: xviii, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0813122163 (alk. paper)
- 9780813122168 (alk. paper)
- D811.P566 A3 2001
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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.