War Stories of the Infantry: Americans in Combat, 1918 to Today

by Michael Green, James D. Brown

"I love the infantry," famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle said, "because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without." This book tells the stories of these soldiers. From the muddy trenches of France in World War I to the arid landscape of Iraq, War Stories of the Infantry immerses the reader in the immediate drama of combat as American infantrymen, Army and Marine Corps, have experienced it. In its pages, infantrymen tell of their struggles with the enemy, the terrain, and the weather, as well as their own fears and doubts in battle. In the humid heat of a faraway jungle, in the bone-chilling cold of a Korean mountaintop, we endure what they endure, see what they see--as they rout the enemy, open their eyes in a field hospital, or suffer the indignities of a POW camp. These are the stories of the largely unsung heroes who do the lion’s share of fighting and dying for their country while protecting the freedoms and liberties that many of us take for granted.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

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Michael[4^]Green
Co-Author with Gladys Green

Michael Green is an American historian of armoured vehicles of the Second World War. He has written extensively on American tanks. He has written over a hundred books on various subjects with a specialisation in tanks.

Reviews

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The basic military soldier who does the dirty work grabbing enemy territory or defending from an enemy soldier is the rifleman or grunt. He is the one who sleeps in the mud and does most of the dying. War Stories is the statements of combat veterans since World War I, mostly enlisted men. The scope of the book changes after the Korean War when the authors use mostly the stories of officers. Instructive as to how terrible war can be.