Guard Wars: The 28th Infantry Division in World War II
Awards:   Winner of 2011 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection.
Author:   Michael E. Weaver
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253355218


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   29 October 2010
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of 2011 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection.

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Author:   Michael E. Weaver
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780253355218


ISBN 10:   0253355214
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   29 October 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Maps Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Background and Issues 2. Relations with the Army and State Identity 3. Readiness and Training: 1939–1941 4. Peacetime Maneuvers: 1939–1941 5. The Pennsylvania National Guard and American Society 6. Social Class, Recruiting, and Ideology 7. The October Purge 8. Stateside Training: 1942–1943 9. Training in Wales: 1943–1944 10. From Normandy to the West Wall 11. Battle of the Hürtgen Forest: A Leadership Failure 12. Battle of the Bulge: Stubbornness and Flexibility 13. Winter Battles 14. Conclusion Appendix 1: The Execution of Private Slovik Appendix 2: The Reestablishment of the Pennsylvania National Guard Notes Bibliography Index

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A significant contribution to understanding how the U.S. Army organized, trained, and prepared for war. Edward G. Miller, author of Nothing Less than Full Victory: Americans at War in Europe, 1944-1945 Michael E. Weaver's Guard Wars does a fine job of bringing the Twenty-Eighth Infantry Division to life. The book begins by focusing on the National Guards' relationship with the regular army as well as the division's interaction with Pennsylvania society and institutions... Overall, Guard Wars is an insightful study of a National Guard division in World War Two. Weaver does not limit himself to the Twenty-Eighth Infantry Division's role in combat, but instead spends half of the book investigating the Bloody Buckets training and its influence on Pennsylvania society. The book is well researched and heavily cited. - Alex Lovelace, H-War, August 2012


A significant contribution to understanding how the U.S. Army organized, trained, and prepared for war. Edward G. Miller, author of Nothing Less than Full Victory: Americans at War in Europe, 1944-1945


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Michael E. Weaver is Associate Professor of Comparative Military History at the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College.

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