Sidebar by Chas S. Clifton
Military History – March 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
The following books, films, and web sites provide more information on the 10th Mountain Division, restoring military vehicles, and related living- history activities.
Randy W. Baumgardner, Tenth Mountain Division (Turner Publishing, 1998).
Curtis Casewit, The Saga of the Mountain Soldiers: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division (J. Messner, 1981).
Rene Coquox, Invisible Men on Skis: the story of the construction of Camp Hale and the occupation by the 10th Mountain Division, 1942- 1945 (Johnson Books, 1970).
Robert B. Ellis, See Naples and Die: A World War II Memoir of a United States Army Ski Trooper in the Mountains of Italy (McFarland, 1996).
A.B. Feuer, Packs On! Memoirs of the 10th Mountain Division (Praeger, 2004).
John Imbrie and Hugh W. Evans, Good Times and Bad Times : A History of C Company, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division: July 1943 to November 1945 (Vermont Heritage Press, 1995).
McKay Jenkins, The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe (Random House, 2003).
Oley Kohlman, Up the Hill with the Ski Troops (O. Kohlman, 1985).
Jeffery R. Leich, Tales of the 10th: the Mountain Troops and American Skiing (New England Ski Museum 2003).
E. Preble Motley, Memoirs of Six Months (Gorham, 1991).
Charles Sanders, The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops during the Second World War (University Press of Colorado, 2005).
Peter Shelton, Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of World War II’s Mountain Division Ski Troops (Scribner, 2003).
Tom Wolf, Ice Crusaders (Roberts Rinehart, 1999).
Documentaries
The 10th Mountain Division Ridge Runners (OnDeck Home Entertainment, 1997).
Fire on the Mountain: The story of the 10th Mountain Division , dir. George and Beth Gage (First Run/Icarus Films, 1995).
Soldiers of the Summit(dir. Tom Feliu and Tom Dudsinski, (KRMA- TV, Denver, 1987).
Spirit of the Mountains, dir. Tom Feliu (KRMA- TV, Denver), 1993.
Winter Warriors(New Video, 2001).
Web sites
10th Mountain Division Association <www.10thmtndivassoc.org>/. The association of veterans, with links also to today’s 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, N.Y. The association is also open to descendants of its World War II veterans and other supporters.
10th Mountain Division Living History Display Group <www.tenthmountain.org>. Men who re- create the clothing, equipment, and experience of the World War II mountain troops.
Military Vehicle Preservation Organization <www.mvpa.org>. For collectors and restorers of military vehicles such as Weasels.
