Arizona Goes to War: The Home Front and the Front Lines During World War II

by Dean Smith

It was a cold, gray morning in northeast France when Pfc. Silvestre Herrera's unit came under heavy fire from a Nazi artillery barrage. Armed with only a hand grenade and his M1 rifle, Herrera fixed his bayonet and mounted a one-man charge, single-handedly capturing eight German soldiers, then killing two more and pinning down the enemy despite having had both feet blown off by a mine. A few months later he was back home in Phoenix when the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521891
• ISBN13: 9780816521890
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"