Draftee Division: The 88th Infantry Division in World War II

By John Sloan Brown

Book Overview

The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, ""fought like wildcats"" and readily outclassed its German adversaries w

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315152X
• ISBN13: 9780813151526
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher