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  • ISBN: 0440209269
  • Category: History
  • Author: Charles Cawthon
  • Subcategory: Military
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Dell (August 1, 1991)
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Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940-to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of service in officer training.

Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940?to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of service in officer training. When America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history. On the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the . Army suffered its heaviest casualties since Gettysburg

The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by .

The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by . They are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".

Keith, Leonard Dell was born on month day 1938, at birth place, to Charles, James Henry Dell and Alma, Ellen Dell.

Leonard Clay Dell was born on month day 1884, at birth place. Leonard lived in month 1918, at address, Missouri. Keith, Leonard Dell was born on month day 1938, at birth place, to Charles, James Henry Dell and Alma, Ellen Dell. Keith had 8 siblings: Dawn Lorraine Vitasovich, Reginald Charles Dell and 6 other siblings. Keith married Unknown Dell. Keith passed away on month day 1985, at age 46 at death place. Keith Leonard Dell, 1937 - 1985. When America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history

Other Clay" by Charles R. Cawthon. Subtitled:" A Remembrance Of The World War II Infantry". I first became aware of this book when reading American Heritage's D-Day issue. They believed this work was one of the finest World War II memoirs

Other Clay" by Charles R. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2004. This is a well written personal memoir, written the way all personal memoirs should be written: less on the preliminary training, more on the actual combat experiences. They believed this work was one of the finest World War II memoirs. I found a beat up paperback and I have to agree. Cawthon served with the 116th Regiment ("The Stonewall Brigade") of the 29th Division and was in the second wave on Omaha Beach.

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Bantam Books are a division of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group . I too have been looking for a list of the Bantam War Book series.

Bantam Books are a division of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, which is in turn owned by Random House, Inc. the well-known US publishing house, which in turn is owned by the also well-known Bertelsmann, the simply quite enormous German transnational media and publishing corporation. Anyway, Bantam Books have some quite interesting writers working for them in both fiction and nonfiction. And as I've said, they produce a good product from what I've seen over the years. Union464, Oct 14, 2008. I had a few of these as a teen.

Other Clay is a survivorâ?s account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the Elbe.

Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940â?to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of service in officer training. When America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history.

On the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the U.S. Army suffered its heaviest casualties since Gettysburg. The losses were greatest among the infantry companies that led the assault, and Cawthon describes firsthand the furious and deathly chaos of the daylong battle to get off the beach and up the heights. Reduced by casualties to half its preinvasion strength, Cawthonâ?s regiment still managed to fight off German counterattacks and engage in an all-out pursuit across France before the Germans counterattacked again at the Ardennes forest.

Thoughtful, candid, and revealing, Cawthonâ?s memoir is a deeply felt and carefully recollected study of men confronting the face of deathâ?their fear, their courage, their hunger and exhaustion, their loyalty to one another, and their miraculous and unreasoning ability to go one more step, one more day, one more mile.


Reviews about Other Clay (Dell Nonfiction War Series) (7):
Natety
My 4-star rating is really two ratings: 3 stars for the story, and a full 5 stars (wish I could give 6) to the literary art form. The story itself is believable and well told, but really not much different than you’ve seen in Band of Brothers. Indeed some of the stories are so similar to those in BofB, you wonder if there might have been some “borrowing” of content. The alternative is the stories occurred commonly enough that they repeat in different authors’ accounts. The evidence favors the latter. Though effective, the story is familiar enough (for all but novice WWII readers), and concise enough that it might not be strong enough to sustain vigorous reader interest. That’s where the literary art comes in. Cawthon is such a talented writer. The literary form is a masterpiece. That alone is worth the read, and you get the story at no added cost. The only aspect of the story that grew tiresome to me, is the extreme humility offered by the author. It borders on incredulity. How could “we” have won the war if we had company and battalion commanders, who (though courageous) seemed so detached and clueless about the conduct of infantry warfare? The probable answer is that Cawthon, (field promoted two ranks) wasn’t actually that clueless; hence the incredulous degree of humility. The motive seems good, but in the end it doesn’t work. I repeat the literary talent on display is formidable, and alone justifies the few hours of read time required. It will make you look for other Cawthon offerings.
Munigrinn
I can see why some folks did not like this story. It wasn't full of tables of organization, it didn't have many maps, it didn't make you feel as if you've been living in combat fatigues for weeks or crawling under tracer rounds. No...

It was much better than that. It was a tale of what happens to people when immersed in the atmosphere of warfare. And, just as there are many different people, you get to see in this story an equally diverse array of reactions. I can relate to this man's observations and commentary. They are genuine and they are very human, ranging at any time somewhere between scoundrel and heroic. I suppose it was the unvarnished truth, written in beautiful prose, that I found most appealing. If you desire to understand a little more of the "human condition", particularly when it is stressed to the extreme as will happen during armed conflict, then I highly recommend this tale. It is informative and it is reassuring. It is enlightening in a way to which few other memoirs aspire.
Vispel
This is an interesting book. Perhaps not as good as I'd initially thought, and hoped, but good nonetheless. From what I can tell the book wasn't written till the late-80's early 90's, although it is based in part on a trio of articles written in the 70s and early 80s. I think it suffers - as a memoir - from having been written so long after the event. Notably, there is an almost complete absence of spoken word interactions, and in a way it almost seems like Cawthon is writing about someone else.

I really, really liked Cawthon's modesty. Also, the changing character of the division over it's months in battle was interesting. The importance of personal relationships was brought out well, both at the peer level, and at the superior level (e.g., his good first impression with Gerhardt, which made things a little easier with this notoriously difficult man for Cawthon later). The emphasis he put on psychological casualties and the 'voluntary' nature of being a rifleman in the US Army in WWII was enlightening, and isn't something I've seen much - or any - discussion of elsewhere (although ... Bowlby and Milligan do so for the British Army, as does Mowat for the Canadian Army).

OTOH, there was strangely little information about the mechanics of running an infantry unit in battle (unlike, say, Wilson or Johns). I also tired of Cawthon's repeatedly going off on little tangents then pulling up short with "but that belongs in a later part of this story" - he did that a lot with Howie, in particular.

On a minor note; the maps were ok, but I think are the worse for having been borrowed from another context rather than having been drawn specifically for this one. OTOH, those official history maps really are nice, and it is profoundly unlikely anything similar would have been produced just for this book.

Would I recommend this book? Well, yes, but not to all and sundry. The 29th Inf Div has been blessed with a number of very good biographers (Johns "The Clay Pigeons of St. Lô", Balkoski "Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Division in Normandy" and "Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944", and Cawthon), and I would recommend it to anyone who's read either or both of those others, but perhaps not as a first read.

I'm glad I read it, but I think it'll be a long while before I read it again, or even refer to it.

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