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Top Sergeant: The Life and Times of Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge, by William G. Bainbridge, © William G. Bainbridge, New York: Ballantine, 1995.
“To Relieve Bastogne,” by Don Stivers, © Don Stivers, Stivers Publishing, 1990. Dale E. Wilson, “American Armor in the First World War,” A Weekend With the Great War: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Great War Interconference Seminar, ed. by Steven Weingarten, © Cantigny First Division Foundation, 1996.
“Captain Nathan Hale (1755-1776),” by Mary J. Ortner, Ph.D., © Mary J. Ortner, 2001, Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Stephen Hardin, "The Battle of the Alamo," Handbook of Texas Online, www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online, © Texas State Historical Association, 2003. Used with permission.
Don Rivers, “William Pittenger, Medal of Honor Recipient,” Village News (13 Aug 1998) © Fallbrook Historical Society, Fallbrook, CA, 1998-1999.
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, LTG Harold G. Moore, US Army (Retired) and Joseph L. Galloway, © LTG H. G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, Random House, Incorporated, 1992.
War as I Knew It by General George S. Patton. Copyright © 1947 by Beatrice Patton Walters, Ruth Patton Totten, and George Smith Totten. Copyright © renewed 1975 by MG George Patton, Ruth Patton Totten, John K. Waters, Jr., and George P. Waters. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations, edited by Peter G. Tsouras. Copyright © Peter G. Tsouras, London: Greenhill Books and Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, edited by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Copyright © 1976 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.