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Hardcover. A first hand account of how "the 84th 'Railsplitter' Infantry Division embarked from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, in September 1944 and trained in England before beginning its long, grueling journey across Normandy and into history. He details the overwhelming ordeal of the march inland from Omaha Beach, the Siegfried Line attacks, the crippling cold and snow coupled with dwindling resources. From his combat infantryman's foxhole, the author relates the initial encounter against the German Wehrmacht at Geilenkirchen, Germany, the Roer and Rhine River crossings, the almost uncontested dash across the Northern German plains, the mixed horror and jubilation that met the advancing U.S. Army at liberated concentration camps, and the waning days of the war on the Elbe River. The 84th was one of the divisions that took the brunt of the German attack during the Battle of the Bulge, scant kilometers west of Berlin." Includes an account of returning to the area 50 years later. Photographs, drawings, index. Map endpapers. 205 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-275945456 

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