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Other Clay
by Cawthon, Charles R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ condition - jacket edge wear with tears/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0870812084
- ISBN 13
- 9780870812088
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Other Clay: A Remembrance of the World War II Infantry
by Charles R. Cawthon (Author)Publisher: University Press of Colorado (1990)
ISBN-10: 0870812084ISBN-13: 9780870812088
Hardcover: 180 pagesItem Weight: 1.03 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
Other Clay is a survivor's account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the Elbe.Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940 to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of service in officer training. When America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history.
On the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the U.S. Army suffered its heaviest casualties since Gettysburg. The losses were greatest among the infantry companies that led the assault, and Cawthon describes firsthand the furious and deathly chaos of the daylong battle to get off the beach and up the heights. Reduced by casualties to half its preinvasion strength, Cawthon's regiment still managed to fight off German counterattacks and engage in an all-out pursuit across France before the Germans counterattacked again at the Ardennes forest.
Thoughtful, candid, and revealing, Cawthon's memoir is a deeply felt and carefully recollected study of men confronting the face of death—their fear, their courage, their hunger and exhaustion, their loyalty to one another, and their miraculous and unreasoning ability to go one more step, one more day, one more mile.
by Charles R. Cawthon (Author)Publisher: University Press of Colorado (1990)
ISBN-10: 0870812084ISBN-13: 9780870812088
Hardcover: 180 pagesItem Weight: 1.03 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
Other Clay is a survivor's account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the Elbe.Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940 to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of service in officer training. When America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history.
On the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the U.S. Army suffered its heaviest casualties since Gettysburg. The losses were greatest among the infantry companies that led the assault, and Cawthon describes firsthand the furious and deathly chaos of the daylong battle to get off the beach and up the heights. Reduced by casualties to half its preinvasion strength, Cawthon's regiment still managed to fight off German counterattacks and engage in an all-out pursuit across France before the Germans counterattacked again at the Ardennes forest.
Thoughtful, candid, and revealing, Cawthon's memoir is a deeply felt and carefully recollected study of men confronting the face of death—their fear, their courage, their hunger and exhaustion, their loyalty to one another, and their miraculous and unreasoning ability to go one more step, one more day, one more mile.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1205202105
- Title
- Other Clay
- Author
- Cawthon, Charles R
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ condition - jacket edge wear with tears
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0870812084
- ISBN 13
- 9780870812088
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Place of Publication
- Niwot, Co
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 180
- Size
- 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- Keywords
- World War 2, WWII, World War Two, infantry, army
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