Table of Contents

Foreword North Wind in the Vosges Education of an Infantry Officer Trouble and Glory on the Border In France with the American Expeditionary Forces The Piping Time of Peace Test on Guadalcanal Savo Island's Shadow Victory on the Island Home, and Then Back to the Wars Now Thrive the Armorers A Phantom Force at Bouzareah To London and Back--Amid Uncertainty Through the Strait of Bonifacio Courage, mon vieux, le diable est mort… Gauntlet at Montelimar And Some Get Away A Salute to the Lion of Belfort At Epinal: A Personal Tragedy On to Strasbourg--First to Reach the Rhine Strasbourg's Fate in the Balance Emptying the Colmar Pocket Patch Returns to the Offensive Blitzkrieg into Southern Germany, and Victory Hang Up Your Sword and Shield At Last, the Footsteps of the Messengers of Peace Home to Our Mountains Bibliography Index

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This is the first biography of one of the most important and yet least known American leaders of World War II, Sandy Patch, the Seventh Army commander who led his troops to victory at Guadalcanal and made a vital contribution to Allied successes in Europe in 1944-45.

About the Author

WILLIAM K. WYANT, a retired U.S. Army colonel, was a member of the news staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau for nearly twenty-five years, covering the Pentagon, military affairs, and the White House and working on foreign assignments in India, Central America, and the NATO countries. During World War II he served as Secretary to the General Staff of the Seventh Army under General Alexander Patch.