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The Supreme Command / by Forrest C. Pogue.
LIBRA D769 .P64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Pogue, Forrest C., author.
- Series:
- United States Army in World War II. European theater of operations
- CMH pub ; 7-1.
- United States Army in World War II. The European theater of operations
- CMH pub ; 7-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters.
- Allied Forces.
- Military planning--History--20th century.
- Military planning.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Military campaigns.
- History.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Government publications.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 607 pages, 6 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Title appears on item as: The European theater of operations : the Supreme Command
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2017.
- Summary:
- A description of General Eisenhower's wartime command, focusing on the general, his staff, and his superiors in London and Washington and contrasting Allied and enemy command organizations.
- Contents:
- Biographical sketches
- The supreme commander
- The coalition command
- The nature of SHAEF
- The machinery of SHAEF
- Planning before SHAEF
- SHAEF revises plans for the attack
- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944
- Relations with the occupied countries
- Final preparations for the invasion
- D Day to the breakout
- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine
- The campaign in southern France
- Relations with the French, June-September 1944
- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine
- Command reorganization, June-October 1944
- Fighting in the north
- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944
- Relations with liberated countries
- Program for Germany
- The winter counteroffensives
- The battle for the Rhineland
- The battle for the Ruhr
- The drive to the Elbe
- The drive to the Elbe (continued)
- The German surrender
- The last phase.
- Notes:
- "First printed 1954."
- Shipping list no.: 2018-0023-S.
- Six color maps on folded leaves attached to page 3 of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Edition:
- Reprint of: Pogue, Forrest C. Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1954
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pogue, Forrest C. Supreme Command
- OCLC:
- 1028638067
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