FROM OMAHA BEACH TO DAWSON'S RIDGE

An infantry company commander in the US 1st Infantry Division, Captain Joseph Turner Dawson, led his men through some of the most brutal battles of World War II. From the invasion of North Africa in late 1942 to the push towards the German frontier late in 1944, his length of service on the frontlines was extraordinary, and his heroism while holding off the Germans on a ridge near Aachen is legendary. Based on Dawson's own combat journal, this book focuses on leadership in combat during the greatest human drama of the 20th Century.