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| Up Front | xiii | |
| Acknowledgments | xvii | |
| 1. | Come Back With This Shield, or On It | 1 |
| Fort Devens, Massachusetts, to Piedimonte d'Alife, Italy.March-October 1943 | ||
| 2. | Yeah, "Eager for Duty" | 37 |
| Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Algeria. September 1940-July 1943 | ||
| 3. | Operation Barn Door | 61 |
| Sicily: Santa Croce Camerina to Messina. July-August 1943 | ||
| 4. | Sure, General, You Bastard, Five Days to Naples | 93 |
| Italy: Salerno to Piedimonte d'Alife. September-October 1943 | ||
| 5. | The Underbelly | 127 |
| The Winter Line. November 1943-January 1944 | ||
| 6. | Whale on the Beach | 169 |
| Anzio. January-February 1944 | ||
| 7. | Blood-Red, Blood-Fed Poppies | 209 |
| Anzio. February-May 1944 | ||
| 8. | "Here They Wuz an' There We Wuz" | 243 |
| Breakout. May-June 1944 | ||
| 9. | The Dogface and the Duchess | 257 |
| Rome, Salerno and Naples. June-August 1944 | ||
| 10. | Fortunes o' War, My Ass | 275 |
| France: Ste.-Maxime to Varages. August 1944 | ||
| 11. | "The Links of the Chain" | 289 |
| Rians to Livron. August 1944 | ||
| 12. | With My Shield, or On It? | 311 |
| Lyon to the Vosges. August-September 1944 | ||
| 13. | "We Will Meet You All Again" | 325 |
| Rambervillers, the Woods and Back in Naples. September-December 1944 | ||
| 14. | Ambushed at Reipertswiller | 345 |
| The Bulge. December 1944-January 1945 | ||
| 15. | Major Lamberth's Götterdämmerung | 357 |
| The Siegfried Line to Nuremburg. January-April 1945 | ||
| 16. | Dachau | 379 |
| What, at Last, It Was All About. April 29, 1945 | ||
| 17. | The Last Patrol | 407 |
| Munich. April 30-May 7, 1945 | ||
| 18. | "Would You Think There Was War at the Heart of Love?" | 415 |
| Europe and Back in the USA. 1945-2008 | ||
| In Memoriam | 431 | |
| Norby Boone and George Ruder | ||
| Mickey Smith | ||
| Bob Coleman | ||
| Postscript | 445 | |
| Notes | 447 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 471 | |
| Interviews | 475 | |
| Roll Call | 477 | |
| List of Maps | 489 | |
| Index | 491 | |
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