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Category: Archives -> Books  
Donor: Terry Luxford
Location: Bay 30 -> Shelf 5 -> Military and War Tray 3  
Accession Number: 2022.2345.8  
Name of Object: Rhine crossing  
Description: Book named Rhine crossing. Written by James W. Stock. Ballantine's Illustrated history of the Violent Century. battle book no 27. Written on the back page: Pinned down on the Ludendorff Bridge they were conscious only of the screaming passage of shells and the storm of small arms fire directed at them. They could see the Germans still frenziedly attempting to blow the bridge-and them with it-into the Rhine. Few of the US Infantrymen expected to reach the east bank alive.  
Condition: Good  
Height: 8.25 inches
Width: 5.5 inches  
Depth: 0.5 inches  
Place of Origin: New York  
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books