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100 1 Pogue, Forrest C
245 10 Pogue's War :|bDiaries of a WWII Combat Historian
264 1 Lexington :|bUniversity Press of Kentucky,|c2001
264 4 |c©2001
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505 0 Cover -- Pogue's War -- Title -- Copyright -- To Jeannine,
with love -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. London
in the Spring of 1944 -- 2. We Learn Top Secrets or We Are
BIGOTED -- 3. Waiting in Cornwall -- 4. Crossing the
Channel One Day Late -- 5. The Lieutenant John Spaulding
Interview -- 6. First Days in the Field -- 7. First
Interviews in the Field -- 8. The Last Weeks of June -- 9.
Writing History for a Change -- 10. The Breakout at Saint-
LÔ -- 11. Restless Days at the Rear -- 12. Liberated Paris
-- 13. Last Days in Normandy -- 14. Watching Paris Come to
Life -- 15. Opinion and Politics in Liberated Paris -- 16.
Return to the Field -- 17. The Deadly Forest -- 18. The
North Flank of the Bulge -- 19. Regaining Lost Ground --
20. Battle for the Dam -- 21. The Close-Up to the Rhine --
22. Chasing the Armor Across Germany -- 23. Another Form
of German Culture-Buchenwald -- 24. A Non-Sober History of
the Meeting with the Russians -- 25. Pilzen on VE-Day --
Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Index
520 " With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by
Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was
undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat
historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps
best known for his definitive four-volume biography of
General George C. Marshall. But, as Pogue's War makes
clear, he was also a pioneer in the development of oral
history in the twentieth century, as well as an impressive
interviewer with an ability to relate to people at all
levels, from the private in the trenches to the general
carrying four stars. Pogue's War is drawn from Forrest
Pogue's handwritten pocket notebooks, carried with him
throughout the war, long regarded as unreadable because of
his often atrocious handwriting. Pogue himself began
expanding the diaries a few short years after the war,
with the intent of eventual publication. At last this work
is being published. Supplemented with carefully deciphered
and transcribed selections from his diaries, the heart of
the book is straight from the field. Much of the material
has never before seen print. From D-Day to VE-Day, Pogue
experienced and documented combat on the front lines,
describing action on Omaha Beach, in the Huertgen Forest,
and on other infamous fields of conflict. He not only
graphically -- yet also often poetically -- recounts
the extreme circumstances of battle, but he also notes his
fellow soldiers' innermost thoughts, feelings, opinions,
and attitudes about the cruelty of war. As a trained
historian, Pogue describes how he went about his work and
how the Army's history program functioned in the European
Theater of Operations. His entries from his time at the
history headquarters in Paris show the city in the early
days after the liberation in a unique light. Pogue's War
has an immediacy that much official history lacks, and is
a remarkable addition to
520 8 any World War II bookshelf. Franklin D. Anderson, Forrest
Pogue's nephew by marriage, is a longtime educator. He
lives in Princeton, Kentucky
588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other
sources
590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated
libraries
650 0 Pogue, Forrest C. -- Diaries.;Military historians --
United States -- Diaries.;World War, 1939-1945 --
Campaigns -- Western Front.;World War, 1939-1945 --
Personal narratives, American
655 4 Electronic books
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