The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War

by Sanders, Charles J.

• ISBN13: 9780870818233
• ISBN10: 0870818236
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

This book tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis. 2005 winner of the International Ski History Association's Ullr Award.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	ix
FOREWORD	xi
by Major John B. Woodward, Tenth Mountain Division (Ret.)
PREFACE	xv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
1 The Hero of the Thunderbolt	1	(19)
Rudy Konieczny
2 The Pied Piper of Pine Lake	20	(21)
Jake Nunnemacher
3 The Sun Valley Serenader	41	(17)
Ralph Bromaghin
4 The Time of Their Lives	58	(15)
5 Rocky Mountain Highs	73	(16)
6 From Alaska to Austin	89	(18)
7 General Clark and the War in Italy	107	(5)
8 Good-byes	112	(5)
9 Into the Maelstrom	117	(11)
10 The Ridges That Could Not Be Taken	128	(16)
11 The Brutal Road to Castel d'Aiano	144	(11)
12 Rest and Recuperation	155	(9)
13 The Bloodbath of Spring	164	(9)
14 Bad Times	173	(17)
15 Pursuit to the Alps	190	(3)
16 Home	193	(6)
17 Legacy	199	(6)
NOTES	205	(34)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	239	(4)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	243	(2)
INDEX	245