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The Mighty Endeavor..American Armed Forces In the European Theater in World War II
Charles B. MacDonald

Oxford University, 1969

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest

7 reviews
Charles B. MacDonald

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

Attrition at its worse
MacDonald's text is the original non-scholarly texts written on this battle, he does however reference many Allied and German war records and unit histories as well as personal accounts of troops who were present. His credentials as a military historian are also well established adding significant value to this work. This text is very well written and is the origin for many of the theories that ...

Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II

23 reviews
Charles B. MacDonald

Burford Books, 1999

Charles B. MacDonald
Charles B. MacDonald wrote what it was like for a 21year old to command two infantry companies in WW2. He took notes along the way (I have a page of his notes that survived). They cover the capture of Hombressen in Germany. I also have the original typewriter on which he typed the manuscript of his book. I have trvelled the route he took in 1944/45 and found his descriptions of the various ...

A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge

22 reviews
Charles B. MacDonald

Harper Perennial, 1997

Battle of the Bulge comes to life in this book's pages......
On December 16, 1944, elements of four German armies -- 14 infantry and five panzer divisions in all -- attacked part of the American First Army along an 80-mile front along Germany's border with Belgium and Luxembourg. The sudden and unexpected counteroffensive hit the Americans in an area the Allies thought would be a nice, quiet sector for combat-weary divisions to rest and refit while green ...

U.S. Army in World War II: The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge (European Theater of Operations, Volume 8)
Hugh M. Cole, Charles B MacDonald

Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept of the Army, 1965

Detailed history of the time period of D-Day and VE Day, where the Germans launched its counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December 1944 with the idea of breaking through the Allied Lines and forcing a negotiated peace. This is how the Gemans planned it, the Americans fought it, and shows the small unit tactics used. Includes nine attached color maps showing detailed battle plans, positions, attacks, etc.

On A Field of Red: The Communist International and the coming of World War II

1 review
Anthony Cave Brown, Charles B. MacDonald

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981

Soviet Relations with the US, Britain & Germany, 1917-39
On a Field of Red, by British journalist Anthony Cave Brown and American military historian Charles B. McDonald, is the history of the Communist International from its inception soon after the Bolshevik Revolution to its official demise during World War II. The authors drew heavily on recently (1981) declassified files from the US Army and present an exceedingly detailed account separated into ...

Victory in Europe, 1945: The Last Offensive of World War II (Dover Books on History, Political and Social ...

1 review
Charles B. MacDonald

Dover Publications, 2007

7th army in Europe
I bought this book to research where my father was in WWII. I believe this book is well written and has details of engagements that I could not find anywhere else. The 3rd and 45th infantry divisions were the ones I was most interested in and the information provided met my expectations. It is by far the best information I've found on the 7th army in Europe. It has several maps in the ...

Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt (United States Army in World War II)
Charles B. MacDonald, Sidney T. Mathews

Dept. of the Army, 2004

United States Army in World War 2. CMH Pub. 11-7. On cover: Special Studies. Describes battles onthree fronts within the European theater: Arnaville, France; Monte Altuzzo, Italy; and Schmidt, Germany from September through November of 1944.