Presents the stories of individual members of the US 1st Infantry Division (1st ID), familiarly known as the Big Red One, officers as well as enlisted men. The author gleaned information from hundreds of memoirs, diaries, and postwar interviews he either consulted or personally conducted.
""No Sacrifice Too Great: the 1st Infantry Division in World War II" is the story of how a great Division learned to fight from the summer of 1940 through VE day. Formed on a small core of combat veterans from the Great War, the 1st Infantry Division grew from an understrength, peacetime formation to a highly trained and respected fighting organization. More importantly it sustained tactical excellence in the face of dynamic conditions as it crossed North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany and into Czechoslovakia"--
