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Acknowledgments We are grateful for the assistance of many people , particularly the staff of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. We also wish to thank our copyeditor , Elaine Durham Otto, and the University of Nebraska Press project editor, Ann Baker, for their patience and assistance. We also owe a special debt of gratitude to our longtime colleague Marty Andresen, who read the entire typescript and provided many helpful recommendations. Of course, such errors of fact and interpretation as the reader may find must be attributed to us alone. xvii ...

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