List of Illustrations
Foreword by Paul H. Herbert
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Lafayette, We Are Here: Creation of the 1st Infantry Division
2. Cantigny to Soissons
3. Victory in Alsace-Lorraine: St. Mihiel and the Meuse Agonne
4. Between the World Wars: The Twenty-Year Peace
5. Mobilization for War: The Expansion and Training of the Big Red One, 1939 to November 1942
6. Tunisia: The Division Comes of Age
7. Offensive Operations: Gafsa to Victory in Africa
8. The Invasion of Sicily
9. Operation Overlord
10. Crusade in Europe: The Drive to Germany
11. Battles of the German Frontier
12. The Last Offensive against Germany: January to May 1945
13. The Occupation of Germany and the Cold War
14. The Vietnam War and the Big Red One: Deployment and First Battles
15. The Year of Decision? The 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam, 1967
16. Tet and the Light at the End of the Tunnel
17. The Cold War to Desert Storm
18. New Mission: Peacekeeping in the Balkans
19. Global Mission: The War on Terror
Conclusion: The Long War Continues
Notes
Index