Strategic planning for coalition warfare, 1943-1944 / by Maurice Matloff.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Matloff, Maurice, 1915-1993.

Contributor:

John Penman Wood Fund.

Series:

United States Army in World War II. War Department

United States Army in World War II. The War Department

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945.

Strategy.

Physical Description:

xvii, 640 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959.

Contents:

Introduction: The basis of strategy

Casablanca: beginning of an era: January 1943

Advance in the Mediterranean: January-May 1943

The search for a formula

Mounting pressure in the Pacific and Far East: January-May 1943

The new look in strategic planning

The Trident Conference: new pattens, May 1943

From Husky to Avalanche, May-Mid-August, 1943

Crossraods in the European War

Current plans and future operations in the War against Japan: June-August 1943

Quadrant: shaping the patterns: August 1943

"The Mediterranean Again": August-November 1943

Strategy and command in the War against Germany

British-American plans and Soviet expectations: August-November 1943

Strategic strands in the War against Japan: August-November 1943

Final rehearsals en route to Cairo

Cairo-Tehran: a goal is reached: November-December 1943

Strategic inventory 1943

Concentration for the big blow: January-May 1944

The second front and the secondary war; the CBI: January-May 1944

The second front and the secondary war: the Pacific: January-May 1944

The promise of military victory: D-Day to September 1944

Political shadows

Octagon: end of an era

Epilogue

Appendixes.

Notes:

"Bibliographical note and guide to footnotes": pages [556]-563.

Includes index.

OCLC:

8749622