Describes the history of the American soldier during four decades of warfare, from the Battle of the Bulge to counterinsurgency combat in Iraq.

NAL Caliber is an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. -- t.p. verso. Includes maps of: Guam, 1944; Bombardment of Guam; Southern Landings; Northern Landings; Banzai Attack; Invasion Plan at Peleliu; Peleliu, September 1944; Umurbrogol Pocket; Aachen, October 1944; Bulge - Northern Shoulder, December 1944; Operation Masher Whitewing, January-March 1966; Combined Action - I Corps, Vietnam, January 1970; Dak To, November 1967; Infantry in the Gulf War, February 1991; Fallujah, April and November 2004; 2-7 Infantry Area of Operations [Tikrit], 2005-2006; 3-7 Infantry Area of Operations [Baghdad], 2005-2006. Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List

Guam, July 1944 : amphibious combat against a self-destructive enemy -- Peleliu, September 1944 : amphibious combat against a clever, defensive-minded enemy -- Aachen, 1944 : knocking 'em all down on a politically unrestrained urban battlefield -- Scenes from the northern shoulder of the bulge : men against tanks and everything else -- Operation Masher/White wing : air mobility, attrition, and the big-unit grunts of Vietnam -- Counterinsurgency from the barrel of a gun : the marine combined action platoons -- Attrition and the tears of autumn : Dak To, November 1967 -- Eleven mikes and eleven bravos : infantry moments in the ultimate techno-war -- Grunts in the city : urban combat and politics : Fallujah, 2004 -- "Watch out for IEDs!" : twenty-first-century counterinsurgent warfare through the eyes of one infantry regiment in Iraq.