Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Table of Equivalent Ranks xiii
Maps xiv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Our Whole Future is in the Air 7
Chapter 2 A Breed Apart 15
Chapter 3 Men of a Particularly High Order 27
Chapter 4 A Whole New Dimension to Soldiering 45
Chapter 5 A Small Phalanx in a Vast, Strange Land 55
Chapter 6 A Self-Adjusting Foul-up 77
Chapter 7 A Very Rugged Delivery 103
Chapter 8 Taking off for the Gates of Hell 125
Chapter 9 A Force upon which the Fifth Army could Depend 147
Chapter 10 A Terrible and Handsome Sight 175
Chapter 11 Alles Kaputt! The Americans are Killing Everybody! 199
Chapter 12 You Crossed that Causeway 221
Chapter 13 Can't Anything Stop those Men? 243
Chapter 14 A Lasting and Firm Faith in the Airborne 263
Chapter 15 We'll need Two Divisions to do that 279
Chapter 16 A Sunday Drive in an Airplane 301
Chapter 17 The Germans were Everywhere 325
Chapter 18 The Finest Division in the World Today 351
Chapter 19 Even the Gods were Weeping 377
Chapter 20 You are Looking at the Survivors 409
Chapter 21 To Turn the Tide 433
Chapter 22 Singing the Blues about the Right Flank 457
Chapter 23 Making Monkeys out of the Germans 469
Chapter 24 Another Nasty Job 495
Chapter 25 Present at the End 525
Epilogue: Soldiers Recently Engaged in War 553
Notes 561
Bibliography 713
Index 727
