Grunts
Subtitle: inside the American infantry combat experience, World War II through Iraq
By: John C. McManus.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780451227904
Subjects: United States. -- Army. -- Infantry -- History -- 20th century; United States. -- Army. -- Infantry -- History -- 21st century; United States. -- Marine Corps -- History -- 20th century; United States. -- Marine Corps -- History -- 21st century; Combat -- History -- 20th century; Combat -- History -- 21st century
Description: Describes the history of the American soldier during four decades of warfare, from the Battle of the Bulge to counterinsurgency combat in Iraq.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Guam, July 1944 : amphibious combat against a self destructive enemy; title: Peleliu, September 1944 : amphibious combat against a clever, defensive-minded enemy; title: Aachen, 1944 : knocking 'em all down on a politically unrestrained urban battlefield; title: Scenes from the northern shoulder of the bulge : men against tanks and everything else; title: Operation Masher/Whitewing : airmobility, attrition, and the big unit grunts of Vietnam; title: Counterinsurgency from the barrel of a gun : the marine combined action platoons; title: Attrition and the tears of autumn : Dak To, November, 1967; title: Eleven mikes and eleven bravos : infantry moments in the ultimate techno-war; title: Grunts in the city : urban combat and politics-Fallujah, 2004; title: "Watch out for IEDs!" : twenty-first century counterinsurgent warfare through the eyes of one infantry regiment in Iraq.