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Product Identifiers
PublisherWheatmark, Inc.
ISBN-10158736316X
ISBN-139781587363160
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038466770
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhere Heroes Trained : the 736th Medium Tank Battalion (Special)
Number of Pages204 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / United States
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorEddie L. Maddox Jr., Roger M. Baty
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight10.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-109019
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal940.54/1273
Synopsis"Where Heroes Trained deals with a secretive and highly unusual Army project in World War II. Not a Manhattan Project, but taken nearly as seriously, this was a most interesting sidelight of armored warfare. Caught up in the project were many unwitting GIs who found themselves whisked off to mysterious training bases, introduced to the most powerful tank in the American arsenal, and drilled in one of the war's most imaginative battle tactics. This is oral history as it ought to be done: a truly unusual project with lots of photos, maps and illustrations and-best of all-interviews that have been well edited. Baty and Maddox make even the most commonplace memories of home and camp into absorbing reading. The result is a fascinating look at ordinary American GIs caught up in a strange environment, enmeshed in events they barely understand, and determined to carry it through. Best of all, this is no BS " -Ray Puffer, Historian, Edwards AFB
LC Classification NumberD769.306
