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Into dust and fire : five young Americans who went first to fight the Nazi army
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Describes the true story of five young American men who left a life of privilege and an Ivy League education to join the British Army and fight the Nazis six months before the United States became ...
Describes the true story of five young American men who left a life of privilege and an Ivy League education to join the British Army and fight the Nazis six months before the United States became involved in World War II.
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- Creator
- Rachel S. Cox
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : NAL Caliber, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780451234759, 0451234758
- OCLC
- ocn727703449
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue -- pt. 1. Celebrity Soldiers -- Decision -- Convoy -- Riflemen -- Officers -- pt. 2. Around the Cape of Good Hope -- Interlude Doña Aurora -- Lost in the Honeycomb -- Interlude Duchess of Atholl -- pt. 3. Desert Rats -- Into the Blue -- El Alamein -- Recovery -- Spring -- Home
Subjects
- Great Britain. Army. King's Royal Rifle Corps -- History -- 20th century.
- Great Britain. Army. King's Royal Rifle Corps -- Biography.
- Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
- Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
- Americans -- England -- Biography.
- Soldiers -- England -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain.
- Military service, Voluntary -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Foreign enlistment -- England -- History -- 20th century.