The Paratrooper Generals : Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy / Mitchell Yockelson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, [2020]Description: xx, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780811738552
- 0811738558
- Ridgway, Matthew B. (Matthew Bunker), 1895-1993 -- Military leadership
- Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987 -- Military leadership
- United States. Army -- Airborne troops -- History
- United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd
- United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
- United States. Army -- Biography
- Generals -- United States -- Biography
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Adult Book | Northport Library | NonFiction | 940.5421 Y54 | Checked out | 06/28/2024 | 33111009014628 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd "All-American" and the 101st "Screaming Eagle" Airborne Divisions refused to remain behind the lines and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their paratroopers in the thick of combat. Jumping into Normandy during the early hours of D-Day, Ridgway and Taylor fought on the ground for six weeks of combat that cost the airborne divisions more than 40 percent casualties. The Paratrooper Generals is the first book to explore in depth the significant role these two division commanders played on D-Day, describing the extraordinary courage and leadership they demonstrated throughout the most important American campaign of World War II.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Lee's Airborne -- Matthew Bunker Ridgway -- Maxwell Davenport Taylor -- War -- The Birth Of American Airborne Divisions -- "Become A Paratrooper!" -- James Gavin -- Sicily and Italy: A Dress Rehearsal For Normandy -- Eisenhower -- Planning for Neptune -- The American Airborne in England -- C-47s -- Gliders -- : Eisenhower's Parachuting Correspondents -- Brereton's Ninth Air Force -- The Unbearable Burden of Conscience -- A Rendevouz with Destiny -- Pathfinders -- Readying the Skytrains -- The Paratrooper Generals Make Final Preparations -- Delay -- The Paratrooper Generals Take Off -- Scattered in Streams and Cow Pastures -- The All Americans on D-Day -- The Screaming Eagles on D-Day -- Airborne Angels of Mercy -- The End of a Very Long Day -- Crossing the La Fière Causeway -- Seizing The Carentan Causeway -- Carentan -- Ridgway's Final Attacks -- Conclusion.
"Jumping into Normandy during the early hours of D-Day, Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor fought on the ground for six weeks of combat that cost the airborne divisions more than 40 percent casualties. This is the first book to explore in depth the significant role these two division commanders played on D-Day."-- Provided by publisher.