Author:
United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1959].
Descriptionxiii, 481 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Note:Germany first: the basic concept of Allied strategy in World War II / Louis Morton -- The German decision to invade Norway and Denmark (1940) / Earl F. Ziemke -- Japan's decision for war (1941) / Louis Morton -- The decision to evacuate the Japanese from the Pacific Coast (1942) / Stetson Conn -- The decision to withdraw to Bataan (1941) / Louis Morton -- The decision to invade North Africa (Torch) (1942) / Leo J. Meyer -- The Persian corridor as a route for aid to the U.S.S.R. (1942) / Robert W. Coakley -- Overlord versus the Mediterranean at the Cairo-Tehran Conferences (1943) / Richard M. Leighton -- MacArthur and the Admiralties (1944) John Miller, Jr. -- Hitler's decision on the defense of Italy (1943-1944) / Ralph S. Mavrogordato -- General Lucas at Anzio (1944) / Martin Blumenson -- General Clark's decision to drive on Rome (1944) / Sidney T. Mathews -- The Anvil decision: crossroads of strategy (1944) / Maurice Matloff -- General Bradley's decision at Argentan (1944) / Martin Blumenson -- Logistics and the broad-front strategy (1944) / Roland G. Ruppenthal -- The decision to launch Operation Market-Garden (1944) / Charles B. MacDonald -- The German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (1944) / Charles V.P. von Lutichau -- Luzon versus Formosa (1944) / Robert Ross Smith -- The decision to halt at the Elbe (1945) / Forrest C. Pogue -- The decision to use the atomic bomb (1945) / Louis Morton.
Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes.
Note:"Twenty chapters--each dealing with a major decision of World War II--represent a distillation of the most comprehensive and painstakingly documented historical project of all time. During and since the war, a unique team of historians, researchers, writers, and secretaries has been filing, culling, collating, studying, and compiling the history of the United States Army's participation in the world's greatest conflict. Millions of documents ... our own records, the records of our enemies, the records of our Allies--have been consulted and the whole supplement by war and postwar interviews with generals and buck privates and on-the-spot observations." -- Hanson W. Baldwin, introd.
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