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The Boys of Winter

Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War

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An edition of The Boys of Winter (2005)

The Boys of Winter

Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War

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The Boys of Winter is the poignant true story of three young Depression-era American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and ultimately tragic transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the fabled 10th Mountain Division. Rudy Konieczny, Jacob Nunnemacher, and Ralph Bromaghin -- three skiers from disparate geographic and economic backgrounds -- forged names for themselves in the burgeoning sport of snow skiing during the late 1930s. With the world suddenly at war, they found themselves drawn together with several of the world's greatest winter athletes in the US 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado, where they trained to fight Hitler's troops in the mountains of Europe. Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, Charles J Sanders reveals the stories of these young men in a fast-paced and exhilarating narrative. Sanders traces their journeys from childhood to ski championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to bloody battles against the Nazis in the Apennine Mountains of Northern Italy. Ultimately, The Boys of Winter is the story of how some of America's best and brightest died in the war's last and most desperate battles under General Mark Clark, calling into question their sacrifices -- and those of thousands of other troops -- on the 'forgotten' Italian front in the spring of 1945.

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English
Pages
256

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The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
2005, University Press of Colorado
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The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
2005, University Press of Colorado
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.

Published in
Boulder, CO, USA
Genre
Biography.
Copyright Date
2005

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/451/092273, B
Library of Congress
D769.3 10th .S26 2005, D769.3 10th .S26 2005eb, D769.3 10th.S26 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 256 p., [34] p. of plates
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3295286M
Internet Archive
boysofwinterlife0000sand
ISBN 10
0870817833
ISBN 13
9780870817830
LCCN
2004017421
OCLC/WorldCat
56058113, 643783810
Library Thing
2009197
Goodreads
1974314

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