Command decisions / edited with introductory essay by Kent Roberts Greenfield ; the authors: Martin Blumenson [and sixteen others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Blumenson, Martin, author.

Contributor:

Greenfield, Kent Roberts, 1893-1967, editor.

Center of Military History, issuing body.

Series:

CMH pub ; 70-7.

CMH pub ; 70-7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Command of troops.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

World War, 1939-1945.

Military campaigns.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 565 pages) : maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 1987.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Germany first : the basic concept of allied strategy in World War II / Louis Morton

2. The German decision to invade Norway and Denmark / Earl F. Ziemke

3. Decision to land United States forces in Iceland, 1941

4. Japan's decision for war / Louis Morton

5. The decision to evacuate the Japanese from the Pacific coast / Stetson Conn

6. The decision to withdraw to Bataan / Louis Morton

7. The decision to invade North Africa (Torch) / Leo J. Meyer

8. U.S. merchant shipping and the British import crisis / Richard M. Leighton

9. The Persian corridor as a route for aid to the USSR / Robert W. Coakley

10. Overlord versus the Mediterranean at the Cairo-Tehran conferences / Richard M. Leighton

11. Macarthur and the admiralities / John Miller, Jr.

12. Hitler's decision on the defense of Italy / Ralph S. Mavrogordato

13. General Lucas at Anzio / Martin Blumenson

14. General Clark's decision to drive on Rome / Sidney T. Mathews

15. The 90-division gamble / Maurice Matloff

16. The Anvil decision : crossroads of strategy / Maurice Matloff

17. General Bradley's decision at Argentan (13 August 1944) / Martin Blumenson

18. Logistics and the broad-front strategy / Roland G. Ruppenthal

19. The decision to launch Operation Marketgarden / Charles B. MacDonald

20. The German counteroffensive in the Ardennes / Charles V.P. von Luttichau

21. Luzon versus Formosa / Robert Ross Smith

22. The decision to halt at the Elbe / Forrest C. Pogue 23. The decision to use the atomic bomb / Louis Morton.

Notes:

"First printed 1960."

"The materials in Decisions I. 2. 4-7. 9- 14 . and 16-23 appeared in the Harcourt . Brace edition of Command Decision © 1959 by Harcourt . Brace and Company, Inc."

No longer for sale by the Supt. of Docs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (CMH, viewed February 9, 2018).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Command decisions.

OCLC:

1022563809

Access Restriction:

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