Power of place and landscape
Abstract
This chapter presents and compares three military landscapes encountered by the United States (US) Army’s Second World War 10th Mountain Division, the only wartime US formation dedicated to mountain warfare. The Division’s training in the Rocky Mountains was more than adequate for their task of scaling mountain heights at the centre of the German Wehrmacht Gothic Line in 1945. This chapter is concerned with the military landscapes of specialized mountain training and mountain battle-zones. It proceeds from the view that landscapes are not just a material concept but exist also as memories which can be recalled to navigate physical as well as social landscapes. Signs and symbols associated with and found within the landscape are rarely universal; their meanings are culturally, contextually, and temporally determined.
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Appendix A. The environmental settings of the 59 plots on the Uncompahgre Plateau in western Colorado.
Appendix A. The environmental settings of the 59 plots on the Uncompahgre Plateau in western Colorado.
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