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The Purge of the Thirtieth Division
Major General Henry Dozier Russell
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Description for The Purge of the Thirtieth Division
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kaplan, Lawrence M. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army in the critical months leading up to its entry into World War II. Through Russell, the reader gains insight into the vast cultural differences between the Regular Army and the National Guard at the time.
Russell's memoir offer an invaluable source of a commander's first-hand account of how his ... Read more
The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army in the critical months leading up to its entry into World War II. Through Russell, the reader gains insight into the vast cultural differences between the Regular Army and the National Guard at the time.
Russell's memoir offer an invaluable source of a commander's first-hand account of how his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9780870210662
SKU
V9780870210662
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About Major General Henry Dozier Russell
Henry Dozier Russell (1889-1972), a native Georgian, began his military service in the Georgia National Guard as an infantry officer in 1916. He commanded the Thirtieth Infantry Division (National Guard) upon its mobilization for federal service from 1940 to 1942 and served in several Army senior staff assignments until the end of World War II. He commanded the newly created ... Read more
Reviews for The Purge of the Thirtieth Division
…this book is an important contribution to the historiography of the US Army at the outset of the Second World War." - H-Net "Anyone interested in the political conflict between the Regular Army and the National Guard must read this book. It provides an interesting but biased opinion of the U.S. Army in 1940-41 that all military historians writing about ... Read more