Ridgway's paratroopers
Subtitle: the American airborne in World War II
By: Clay Blair.
Edition: Naval Institute Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: Ridgeway, Matthew B. 1895- -- Military leadership.; United States. Army Airborne troops -- History.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Dial Press, 1985.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Designation: Airborne! 1; title: II Sicily: Baptism of Fire 55; title: III Italy: Airborne to the Rescue 117; title: IV England: Eve of Invasion 175; title: V Normandy: The Stuff of Instant Legend 211; title: VI Holland: Disaster at Arnhem 307; title: VII Bulge I: The German Attack 351; title: VIII Bulge II: The Allied Counterattack 407; title: IX Germany: Destruction of the Third Reich 437; title: Sources and Acknowledgments 501; title: Airborne Commanders 505.