Jacob L. Devers : a general's life / James Scott Wheeler ; foreword by Rick Atkinson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wheeler, James Scott, author.

Contributor:

• Atkinson, Rick, author of foreword.

Series:

• American warriors (Lexington, Ky.)
• American warriors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Devers, Jacob L. (Jacob Loucks), 1887-1979.
• Generals--United States--Biography.
• Generals.
• United States.
• World War, 1939-1945--Biography.
• United States. Army--Biography.
• United States. Army.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 589 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Jacob Loucks Devers

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

Contents:

• From York to West Point
• Apprenticeship
• World War I and the Roaring Twenties
• Professional growth
• The approach of war
• Marshall's fireman and division command
• Forging the thunderbolt
• On to the war
• European Theater commander
• Mediterranean Theater of Operations
• Stalemate in Italy and the invasion of southern France
• Sixth Army Group: the Riviera to the Vosges
• The Vosges and Alsace campaigns
• Winter of discontent
• Victory in Europe
• Postwar challenges
• Retirement and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780813166025
• 0813166020

OCLC:

908071877