Author: PUTNAM, WILLIAM L.
Title: Green Cognac the Education of a Mountain Fighter
Description: New York: American Alpine Club, Inc, 1991. Hardcover. ISBN: 0930410505. B&W Photographs; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4; xiii, 242 pages; Hard cover is green with dark green lettering on spine. DJ has slight rubbing/scuffing; in a mylar cover. Green endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; NEW. Illustrated with 56 b/w photographs. "...in 1943, Putnam joined what was to become the 10th Mountain Division, the first and only mountain warfare unit of the US Army....is a superb account of the mountain and ski troops as seen from Putnam's often wry perspective...The elite Mountain Troops were sent to break the German Gothic Line in the Apennine Mountains of Italy...seizing control of 10 mountain crests. Their determined drive broke the German resistance and brought the first large-scale enemy surrender of World War II".. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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