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corley -- a member of the 6th infantry -- was at the surrender of akan. it's kind of interesting that modern historians haven't given more credit, particularly to the forest. and i'd like to know your comments on that. >> guest: well, thank you for that. thanks for your call. john hurley, of course, is one to of the great soldiers of world war ii. how many silver stars is it, seven or eight? i write about the hur kin forest extensively. it's one of the most appalling bits of combat in world war ii. it's terrible generalship by american generals starting with omar bradley and on down the line. and i have almost an entire chapter devoted to the forest. what you find there is a very dense, not very big patch of woods not far from akan on the western edge of germany. and the decision is made to throw one division after another into the forest, and they are chewed to pieces. i write specifically about the 28th division. i just mentioned the commanding general, norm coda, but there were more than five divisions altogether that fought there. it went well for non

and, you know, corley is with me in africa. he's with us for the invasion of sicily. him a lot, but i sure do admire him. >> host: tom e-mails in: at the beginning of world war ii, mark clark was looked upon as sort of a golden boy. was he as bad a general as he is portrayed now? >> guest: i don't think he is, and i don't portray him as a bad general. he's the dominant figure in volume two of this trilogy, particularly the second half of it. .. >> he's a bit self-absorbedded, extruer nard ambitious, and he has a thirst for publicity that is beyond belief. what you find when you get to italy where clark is the commander of the fifth army is a man who cares about the soldiers, who is attentive to the welfare, who is personally brave, unlike some of the stories that have been told about him, and yet is inso board inapt in dealing with the prettyish, and makes decisions indefensible about pressing on to rome, and so i find, personally, that he's a mixed bag. you can see mark clark as somebody who is able to handle 23,000 american battle deaths in italy, not everyone is pu