Vessel of Sadness

William Woodruff served with the First British Infantry Division during World War II and landed with his unit in the initial wave of the Anzio inva-sion. After the war he returned to Ox-ford University and, later, earned his doctorate of philosophy at Nottingham. He is now Graduate Research Professor in Economic History at the University of Florida.

Martin Blumenson was formerly Harold Keith Johnson Professor of Mil-itary History at the Army War College. He is the author of two volumes of The Patton Papers.