Powder River: A History of the 91st Infantry Division in WWII
Your military library will not be complete without this authoritative history of the 91st Infantry Division written by someone who was there. Roy Livengood has very effectively combined facts and dates with the memories of the men who were there.
This definitive history contains Division Training, Operation Vendetta, the battle in Italy, Arno River Campaign, Battle for II Giogo Pass and the Gothic Line, the Winter Line, Po Valley, the Alps, Trieste, and occupation interspersed with personal narratives, photos, maps and Sad Sack cartoons.
Book details
- Author
- Roy Livengood
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 408
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- History › Military › United States
- Topics
- World War II · US Army · Italian Campaign · Gothic Line · military history · unit history · Po Valley
- ISBN-13
- 9781563111358 (Hardcover)9781620454138 (Paperback)
About the author
ROY LIVENGOOD was a World War II veteran, military historian, and editor who served as a PFC with Company E, 363rd Infantry of the 91st Infantry Division in North Africa and Italy. He is the author of Thunder in the Appennines: The Story of the 361st Infantry Regiment in Italy.
For years Livengood edited the Powder River Journal, a magazine of military history, and wrote extensively on the Italian Campaign and the 91st Division’s history. His account of the battle at Livergnano was translated into Italian and published in Italy in 1992.
Livengood was born in Concordia, Kansas, and died on April 26, 2012, at Salina Regional Health Center in Salina, Kansas, at the age of 87.
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