Books About and Including 4th Infantry Division’s Actions

Originally published in: “War Stories – Utah Beach to Pleiku”

By Robert O. Babcock

Also check www.deedspublishing.com for updated 4ID history. As you become aware of other books to add to this list, please send the info to Bob Babcock at info@deedspublishing.com

Provided for your reference as you research the long and proud history of the 4ID –

Current as of December 2017

World War I

The 4th Division in the World War by Christian A. Bach and Henry Noble Hall. Issued

by the Division, 1920. Out of Print.  (Reprinted April 2017 by Deeds Publishing – www.deedspublishing.com)Reprinted in June 2017 and available at www.deedspublishing.com.

About Face by Eleanor Elliott Brownell. World War I Press, Flint, MI, 2000. ISBN 0-

9679784-0-8.

World War II

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway edited by William White. A Touchstone Book Published

by Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-83905-9.

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose. A Touchstone Book Published by Simon &

Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-84801-5.

Cross Channel Attack by Gordon A. Harrison. First Printed in 1951 by Center of

Military History. Reprinted by BBD Special Editions, 1993. ISBN 0-7924-5856-7.

Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Doubleday, 1948. ISBN 0-385-41619-9.

D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Stephen Ambrose. Simon & Shuster Inc. April 1995

(Paperback version) ISBN 068480137X

A Dark and Bloody Ground - The Hurtgen Forest and Roer River Dams 1944-1945 by

Edward G. Miller. Texas A&M University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-89096-626-5.

Ernie’s War, The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches by David Nichols. A

Touchstone Book Published by Simon & Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-64452-1.

The Forgotten Dead by Ken Small. Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, 1999.

ISBN 0-7475-4467-0.

The Good War, An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel. The New Press, 1984.

ISBN 1-56584-343-6.

Hell in the Hürtgen: Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment by Dr.

Robert Rush. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1128-2.

History of the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II by Dr. (Chaplain) Bill Boice.

Issued by the 22nd Infantry Regiment Society, 1956. (Reprinted June 2017 by

www.deedspublishing.com

History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II by Colonel Gerden F.

Johnson. Issued by the 4th Infantry Division Association, 1947. (Reprinted June 2017 by

www.deedspublishing.com

If You Survive by George Wilson. Ivy Books Published by Ballantine Books, 1987.

ISBN 0-8041-0003-9.

The Invasion Before Normandy - The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands by Edwin P. Hoyt.

Robert Hale, London, 1985. ISBN 0-7090-3266-8.

June 6, 1944 - The Voices of D-Day by Gerald Astor. St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

ISBN 0-312-11014-6.

The Last Offensive by Charles B. MacDonald. First Printed in 1973 by Center of

Military History. Reprinted by BBD Special Editions, 1993.

ISBN 0-7924-5858-3.

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan. Simon & Shuster Inc. April 1994 (Paperback

version) ISBN 0671890913

Normandy 1944 – A Young Rifleman’s Warby Dick Stodghill. Publish America, 2006.

ISBN 1-4241-4913-4

Falling Out and Belonging: A Foot Soldier’s Lifeby S. Joseph Krause.  Author House 2006.

ISBN 1-4259-2579-0

A Soldier’s Journal: With the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II by David

Rothbart. iBooks, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-5865-6.

A Soldier’s Story by Omar N. Bradley. Henry Holt and Company, 1951.

Strike Swiftly! The 70th Tank Battalion from North Africa to Normandy to Germany by

Marvin Jensen. Presidio Press, 1997. ISBN 0-89141-610-2.

Utah Beach to Cherbourg, 6-27 June 1944 by Center of Military History, 1948. CMH

Pub 100-12. Available on the internet at www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/

utah/utah.htm.

War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleikuby Robert O. Babcock.  Deeds Publishing, reprinted 2006.

ISBN0-9776018-1-1. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.  (This book has been broken into three books, all available in e-book or paperback at www.deedspublishing.com- new titles are War Stories: D-Day to Liberation of Paris; War Stories: Paris to V-E Day; War Stories: Vietnam 1966 – 1970).

World War II Order of Battle by Shelby L. Stanton. Gallahad Books, 1991.

ISBN 0-88365-775-9.

Surviving the Odds – From D-Day to VE-Day with the 4^th Division in Europeby Jack Capell.

Regina Books, PO Box 280, Claremont, CA 91711. ISBN 978-1-930053-49-6.

A Chaplain’s Dutyby Rev. George W. Knapp and Gayle E. Knapp, Deeds Publishing, December 2010, ISBN 978-0-9826180-7-3. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

A Soldier, My Dadby Neal Pizzano, Deeds Publishing, December 2011, ISBN 978-1-937565-12-1. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Reported Killed in Actionby Lisa Beichl, Deeds Publishing, November 2015, ISBN 978-1-944193-04-1, Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Series of five yearbooks published in 1946 by the 4th Infantry Division (8th Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Regiment, 22nd Infantry Regiment, Division Artillery, Division HQ / Support Units). Reprinted in June 2017, available at www.deedspublishing.com.

For information on self-published memoirs by 4th Infantry Division veterans, contact Bob Babcock at info@deedspublishing.comto get information on how to order the books, plus others as we become aware of them:

Deeds not Words: A Narrative of the 22nd Infantry in WWII by David Roderick

Kirtley's Chronicles by Dr. James Kirtley

Men of the Terrible Green Cross by Herb Fowle

Not a Hero, Just Lucky by Dib Taylor

Rifleman, Company G, 12th Infantry, WWII by Carlton H. Stauffer

Six Days in 1945 by Edwin D. Williams

Swede Henley’s Diary by Swede Henley

And Then There Were None by Wes Trindal

World War II Army Journal by David Rothbart

From Dachau to D-Dayby Werner Kleeman

Dear Dadby Kathy Williams (WWII story of Vietnam 4ID brigade commander and Chief of Staff Jud Miller)

Vietnam

Return of the Warriors; subtitled Vietnam War Veterans Facethe Ghosts of Their Past on Their Personal Battlegrounds by Bob Reilly. Published in 2010 by Trafford Publishing.

Absolution, Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry by Charles J. Boyle,

Sergeant Kirkland’s Press, 1999 ISBN 1-887901-30-2

The Army at War from the series, The Vietnam Experience. Boston Publishing

Company, 1987. ISBN 0-939526-23-9.

The Battle for Chu Moor Mountain – April 1968by Fred Childs, Deeds Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-941165-43-0.

Five Years to DEROS by Harry Dilkes with Lewis A. Easterly. DPG Limited, 2000.

(No ISBN) Library of Congress # 097-243959.

Flashback: A Journey in Time by John Michael Finn. 1st Books Library 2001.

ISBN 0-75961-292-7.

Light Ruck, Vietnam 1969 by Tom Lacombe. Loft Press, 2002. ISBN 1-893846-56-3.

Nine Days in Mayby Warren Wilkins. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Available from www.amazon.com.

The Rise and Fall of an American Army, U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973 by

Shelby L. Stanton. Presidio Press, 1985. ISBN 0-89141-576-9.

Summons of the Trumpet, U.S.- Vietnam in Perspective by Dave R. Palmer. Presidio

Press, 1978. ISBN 0-89141-550-5.

Taking the Offensive - October 1966 to October 1967 by George L. MacGarrigle.

Center of Military History, 1998. CMH Pub 91-4-1.

Time Heals No Wounds by Jack Leninger. Ivy Books Published by Ballantine 1993.

ISBN 0-8041-0916-8.

Vietnam Order of Battle by Shelby Stanton. U.S. News Books, 1981. ISBN 0-89193-

700-5.

War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleikuby Robert O. Babcock. Deeds Publishing, 2002.ISBN0-9776018-1-1.

War Stories: Vietnam 1966-1970by Robert O. Babcock. Deeds Publishing 2016 (subset of above book)

West to Cambodia by S.L.A. Marshall. Jove Books, 1968. ISBN 0-515-08890-0.

What Now, Lieutenant? by Robert O. Babcock. Deeds Publishing, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-9776018-0-6. Available at www.deedspublishing.comor www.amazon.com

Young Soldiers Amazing Warriors: Inside One of the Most Highly Decorated Battalions of Vietnam – December 20, 2013 by Robert H Sholly. Available at www.amazon.com

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Ladies of the Ironhorse, The Voices of Those Who Wait at Home by Rhonda Eggleston.

St. John’s Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9710551-9-X. Available at  www.deedspublishing.com.

Operation Iraqi Freedom I: A Year in the Sunni Triangle - The History of the 4th

Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse in Iraq, April 2003 to April 2004 by

Robert O. Babcock. St. John’s Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9710551-8-1. Available at  www.deedspublishing.com

My Son is Alive…by Roberta Quimby. Deeds Publishing, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9776018-4-4. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Wolfhound Reflections – A New Generation : Operation Iraqi Freedom 2007-2009by JB Jaso III.

Deeds Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9776018-8-2. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-09: Dispatches from Baghdad – The History of the 4^th Infantry Division and Multi-National Division – Baghdad in Iraqby Robert O. Babcock (Details on availability can be gotten from Bob Babcock at www.deedspublishing.com)

We Got Him!By LTC (Ret) Steve Russell. First (limited) edition by Deeds Publishing. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9834105-2-2. Available at www.deedspublishing.com. Simon & Schuster second edition available at www.amazon.comor local book stores.

Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan

Task Force Regulars, 1^st Battalion, 22^nd Infantry Regiment - Operation Enduring Freedom X-XI – July 2010 – July 2011, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan – yearbook, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937565-10-7. Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Siren’s Song: The Allure of Warby Antonio Salinas. Deeds Publishing. February 2012. ISBN 978-1-937565-17-6.  Available at www.deedspublishing.com.

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha, Dutton, an Imprint of Random House, May 2016. ISBN 978-0-525-95505-4. Available at www.amazon.com.

8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier’s Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor by Flo Groberg, Simon & Schuster, November 2017. ISBN 978-1-5011-6588-1. Available at www.amazon.com.

Web Sites of Interest

The following web sites will be updated regularly with information about the 4th

Infantry Division, how to become a member of the Associations, this book, links to

other web sites of interest, and other references as they become available:

Web Site of National 4th Infantry Division Association: www.4thinfantry.org

Web Site of 22nd Infantry Regiment Society: www.22ndinfantry.org

Web Site of 1^st Battalion, 22^nd Infantry Regiment:  www.1-22infantry.org

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