Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian /
"With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall....
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky
©2001.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jchh6 |
| Summary: | "With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D. Anderson Forrest Pogue (1912-1996) was undoubtedly one of the greatest World War II combat historians. Born and educated in Kentucky, he is perhaps best known for his definitive four-volume biography of General George C. Marshall. But, as Pogue's War makes clear, he was also a pioneer in the development of oral history in the twentieth century, as well as an impressive interviewer with an ability to relate to people at all levels, from the private in the trenches to the general carrying four stars. Pogue's War is drawn from Forr |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes index. |
| ISBN: | 0813170818 9780813170817 9780813137216 0813137217 1283327511 9781283327510 9786613327512 6613327514 0813122163 9780813122168 |