The General and His Daughter: The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to His Daughter Barbara

by Starlyn Jorgensen, Gayle Wurst, Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy

Book Overview

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division-America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, Slim JimGavin, as he was known to his troops, at the age of thirty-seven became the 82nd's commanding general-the youngest Army officer to become a major general since the Civil War. At war's end, this soldier's soldier had become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823226875
• ISBN13: 9780823226870
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"