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From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. Edited by Cole G. Kingseed. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59114-439-6. Photographs. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Pp. xxviii, 272 pages. $29.94.
This book should be read for what it does not say in the title. Cole G. Kingseed edited the letters written by a young volunteer in the U.S. Army through enlistment, training, initial assignment, Officer Candidate School, initial deployment, combat command, and then to his final days before demobilization. Although famous for his, and his command's, service on Omaha Beach and at Dawson's Ridge outside Aachen, Germany, this...