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Good. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front cover has a small scuff. Scarce. xii, 120, [2] p. Includes illustrations. Tee Soldier's Load [Mobility of the Soldier] was written in 1949. From Wikipedia: "S.L.A. Marshall (full name, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall) (July 18, 1900 December 17, 1977) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, which was made into a film of the same name. He was born in New York and raised in Colorado, California and El Paso, Texas. He joined the Army in 1917 and saw service on the border with Mexico during the Pancho Villa Expedition before serving in France during World War I. He attained the rank of sergeant while serving as a member of Company A, 315th Engineer Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. The 315th Engineers participated in the Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. Shortly after Saint-Mihiel, Marshall was one of the soldiers in his unit selected to take the entrance examinations for the United States Military Academy as part of an Army initiative to replenish the officer corps with exceptional soldiers from the ranks. (Under this program, Captain Harry S. Truman nominated a member of his battery, John Francis Uncles. Uncles retired as a lieutenant general). Marshall subsequently attended Officer Candidate School, received his commission in early 1919, and remained in France to assist with post-war demobilization. After Marshall's discharge at the end of the war, he remained in the Reserve, attended the Texas College of Mines (now the University of Texas at El Paso), and worked at a variety of jobs, including bricklayer. In the early 1920s, he became a newspaper reporter and editor, first with the El Paso Herald, and later the The Detroit News. As a reporter, Marshall gained a national reputation for his coverage of Latin American and European military affairs, including the Spanish Civil War. In 1940, Marshall began a career as an author with the publication of Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics the Wehrmacht developed in the years leading up to the start of World War II. During World War II, Marshall became an official Army combat historian, and came to know many of the war's best-known Allied commanders, including George S. Patton and Omar N. Bradley. He conducted hundreds of interviews of both enlisted men and officers regarding their combat experiences, and was an early proponent of oral history techniques. In particular, Marshall favored the group interview, where he would gather surviving members of a frontline unit together and debrief them on their combat experiences of a day or two before. Marshall's work on infantry combat effectiveness in World War II, titled Men Against Fire, is his best-known and most controversial work. In the book, Marshall claimed that of the World War II U.S. troops in actual combat, 75% never fired at the enemy for the purpose of killing, even though they were engaged in combat and under direct threat. Marshall argued that the Army should devote significant training resources to increasing the percentage of soldiers willing to engage the enemy with direct fire. Less well known, but perhaps more significant was Marshall's effort to assemble German officers after the war to write histories and analyses of battles in all theatres of the European war. At the height of the project, over 200 German officers participated, including Heinz Guderian and Franz Halder. Hundreds of monographs came out of the project. Marshall was recalled in late 1950 for three months' duty as a Historian/Operations Analyst for the Eighth Army during the Korean War. He collected his numerous Korean combat interviews into a treatise analyzing U.S. infantry and weapons effectiveness, Commentary on Infantry and Weapons in Korea 1950 51. The U.S. Army decided to classify some of Marshall's findings as restricted information, later incorporating them as part of a plan to improve...
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to covers and spine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very good. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. This is the 2002 printing. No markings or notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very good. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The text block is clean and free of staining. No markings or notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the covers and spine. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
