Robert W Baumer: 2 books
Old Hickory
The 30th Division: The Top-Rated American Infantry Division in Europe in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
The best U.S. division at war, from Normandy to the Bulge and beyond
The 30th Infantry Division, drawn from the hill country of Tennessee and the Carolinas, was regarded during World War II as the cream of the crop of U.S. fighting units. The Germans agreed, calling the division “Roosevelt’s...
Aachen
The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of Charlemagne's empire and now firmly entrenched within Germany's...