WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2105968

Spearheaders

The account of the career of an American commando unit, the "Rangers", from its beginning to its role in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "The account of the career of an American commando unit, the "Rangers", from its beginning to its role in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II."@en
  • "The outlook for a victory of the Allied Powers was dim in the spring of 1942. Britain was being unmercifully bombed and threatened with invasion. Rommel''s forces were rampaging across North Africa toward Alexandria. Only two American divisions had arrived in the European theatre. Stationed in Ireland, they were green, untested troops, their combat deployment a matter of speculation even to the high command. It was then that General Lucien K. Truscott conceived the plan of organizing an American commando unit to be known as the ""Rangers,"" a name made famous in American history. ""On every fr."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Personal narratives"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Spearheaders"@en
  • "The Spearheaders A Personal History of Darby''s Rangers"@en
  • "The spearheaders : a personal history of Darby's Rangers"@en
  • "The spearheaders : a personal history of Darby's Rangers"
  • "The spearheaders"
  • "The spearheaders"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The Spearheaders. [With plates.]"@en
  • "Roshe-ha-hanit"
  • "The spearhaders"@en
  • "ראשי-החנית"

workExample